I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder.

The soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.

Such is the strength of the burden of habit. Here I have the power to be but do not wish it. There I wish to be but lacks the power. On both grounds, I'm in misery.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.

What do I love when I love my God?

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

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

Every challenge you face today makes you stronger tomorrow. The challenge of life is intended to make you better, not bitter.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean.  Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.

...I am talking about evil.It blooms.It eats.It grins.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don't look back, you can never look back.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

We do know that no one gets wise enough to really understand the heart of another, though it is the task of our life to try.

Our job is to give people not what they want, but what we decide they ought to have.

It doesn’t matter what it is, it becomes better with love.

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