“The good Christian should beware of mathematicians. The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell.”

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost.

We count on God’s mercy for our past mistakes, on God’s love for our present needs, on God’s sovereignty for our future.

I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him lest there be two bad men.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.

To sing is to pray twice.

He that is jealous is not in love.

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

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love. I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

Truth is not private property.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.

The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.

The first step of healing is to beware of your own negative thoughts.

You’ve got to be very careful if you don’t know where you are going, because you might not get there.

Beware of the unloved, because they will eventually hurt themselves or others.

Don’t walk under the coconut trees.

Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

Beware of a wolf in sheep’s clothing.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.