Wisdom worth sharing, words worth remembering.
When you lie down with a short prayer commit yourself into the hands of your Creator and when you have done so trust Him with yourself as you must do when you are dying.
A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.
Marriage is the mother of the world. It preserves kingdoms and fills cities and churches and heaven itself.
To be proud of learning is the greatest ignorance.
The best theology is rather a divine life than a divine knowledge.
It is impossible to make people understand their ignorance for it requires knowledge to perceive it and therefore he that can perceive it hath it not.
He that loves not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home and broods a nest of sorrows.
Secrecy is the chastity of friendship.
Love is friendship set on fire.
If anger proceeds from a great cause it turns to fury if from a small cause it is peevishness and so is always either terrible or ridiculous.
A celibate like the fly in the heart of an apple dwells in a perpetual sweetness but sits alone and is confined and dies in singularity.
