For a prohibition always increases an illicit desire so long as the love of and joy in holiness is too weak to conquer the inclination to sin...
Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you.
What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.
Some things are to be enjoyed, others to be used, and there are others to be enjoyed and used.
O mortals, how long will you be heavy-hearted? Life has come down to you, and are you reluctant to ascend and live? But what room is there for you to ascend, you with your high-flown ways and lofty ta...
O Lord my God, tell me what you are to me. Say to my soul, . Say it so that I can hear it. My heart is listening, Lord; open the ears of my heard and say to my soul, . Let me run toward this voice and...
Is truth then a nothing, simply because it is not spread out through space either finite or infinite? Then from afar you cried to me, By no means, for .
But what do I love, when I love You? Not beauty of bodies, nor the fair harmony of time. Not the brightness of the light, so welcome to our eyes, Nor sweet melodies of varied songs, Nor the fragrant s...
Since divine truth and scripture clearly teach us that God, the Creator of all things, is Wisdom, a true philosopher will be a lover of God. That does not mean that all who answer to the name are real...
It is no less impossible for us not to taste as bitter the death of those whose life for us was such a source of sweetness.
No man can be a good bishop if he loves his title but not his task.
My questioning was my attentive spirit,and their reply, their beauty.
For no one should consider anything his own, except perhaps a lie, since all truth is from Him who said, I am the truth.
So it falls out that in this world, in evil days like these, the Church walks onward like a wayfarer stricken by the world's hostility, but comforted by the mercy of God. Nor does this state of affair...
The Devil would not have begun by an open and obvious sin to tempt man into doing something which God had forbidden, had not man already begun to seek satisfaction in himself and, consequently, to tak...