“God created everything by number, weight and measure.”

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Physics, beware of metaphysics.

I feign no hypotheses.

Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy is by establishing the truth. One purposes to fill a bushel with tares, but if I can fill it first with wheat, I may defy his attempts.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.

It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

We have a God who is a Creator, not a duplicator.

The media has the power to create an entrenched perception of reality that’s incorrect.

Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can you trust God for that?

Sometimes you have to create the thing you want to be part of.

Success is achieved by people who deeply understand reality and know how to use it to get what they want. The converse is also true: idealists who are not well-grounded in reality create problems, not progress.

Love is the only path to anything worth doing, creating or pursuing.

The masculine in each of us struggles for greater freedom and tries to achieve it through financial, creative, or political challenges.

Our goal while on this earth is to transcend our illusions and discover the innate power of our spirit. We are responsible for what we create, and we must therefore learn to act and think with love and wisdom and live in service to others and all life.