I am not a ‘wise man,’ nor . . . shall I ever be. And so require not from me that I should be equal to the best, but that I should be better than the wicked. It is enough for me if every day I reduce the number of my vices, and blame my mistakes.
No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.
If you wished to be loved, love.
Life is warfare.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.