“It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.”

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

Trust the past to the mercy of God, the present to His love, and the future to His providence.

I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

You didn’t think of angels as white or black. They were angels.

Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.

She has the intuition of an angel and fire like a dragon.

An angel cannot be blind to the fire below – lest she risk becoming it.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

They talk like angels but they live like men.