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A comprehended god is no god.

As a moth gnaws a garment, so doth envy consume a [person].

Happiness can only be achieved by looking inward & learning to enjoy whatever life has and this requires transforming greed into gratitude.

Everywhere, wherever you may find yourself, you can set up an altar to God in your mind by means of prayer.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.

For it cannot, it cannot be, that a man should enjoy the benefit of grace except he watch.

Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider's web.

If then we have angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

But now, instead of organs, Christians must use the body to praise God.

For You are holy, our God, and to You we give glory, to the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, now and forever...

Nothing is more fallacious than wealth. It is a hostile comrade, a domestic enemy.

The Holy Scriptures were not given
to us that we should enclose
them in books, but that we should
engrave them upon our hearts.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts.

No one can harm the man who does himself no wrong.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.

For Christians above all men are forbidden to correct the stumblings of sinners by force.