The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

She's fire. But she won't burn you... she knows all too well, how it feel to live with ashes.

The past is a guidepost not a hitching post.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

It's all about attitude and feeling good about yourself and not looking like everybody on TV. You do not have to be small; you can have some junk in your trunk.

Grieve not that men do not know you; grieve that you do not know men.

Health, power, riches, possessions and honor can be snatched from you, but your will is irrevocably your own.

If a man is both wise and lucky, he will not make the same mistake twice. But he will make any one of ten thousand brothers or cousins of the original.

Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. ... They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them.

The most successful people are those who are wildly enthusiastic about their work.