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No Superficial Repentance
“I know no superficial, halfway, and perfunctory repentance. It must affect me in every part before I will call it so, and must grip me by the vitals and afflict them as deeply and as completely as God sees into me.” Of Repentance (749)
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“Let us follow along, in God’s name”
“Let us follow along, in God’s name, let us follow!” II.37 “Of the Resemblance of Children to Fathers” (p. 706)
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Monsters
“What we call monsters are not so to God, who sees in the immensity of his work the infinity of forms that he has comprised in it; and it is for us to believe that this figure that astonishes us is related and linked to some other figure of the same kind unknown to man.”…
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What is most urgent
“A starving man would be very foolish to try and provide himself with a fine garment rather than with a good meal: we must run to what is most urgent.” II.16 “Of glory” (569)
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What we call monsters
“What we call monsters are not so to God, who sees in the immensity of his work the infinity of forms that he has comprised in it…From his infinite wisdom there proceeds nothing but that is good and ordinary and regular…We call contrary to nature what happens contrary to custom; nothing is anything but according…
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A true prayer
“A true prayer and religious reconciliation of ourselves to God cannot occur in an impure soul, subject even then to the domination of Satan.” I.56 (p.285)
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The sole and unique protector
“He is indeed our sole and unique protector, and can do anything to help us; but although he deigns to honor us with that sweet fatherly relationship, nevertheless, he is as just as he is good and as he is powerful. But he exercises his justice much more often than his power, and favors us…