A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

He who does not have the church as his mother does not have God as his Father.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of conscious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you.

The world is a great book; he who never stirs from home reads only a page.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbor.

You (God) have not only commanded continence, that is, from what things we are to restrain our love, but also justice, that is, on what we are to bestow our love.

The argument is at an end.

I was in love with loving.