Understanding is the reward of faith. Therefore seek not to understand that thou mayest believe, but believe, that thou mayest understand.
Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
If you were the only person on earth, Christ would have still suffered and died for you.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering.
An unjust law is no law at all.
Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.
He who sings prays twice.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Love the sinner and hate the sin.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
