“There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.”

“I had not yet fallen in love, but I was in love with the idea of it, and this feeling that something was missing around me made me despise myself for not being more anxious to satisfy the need. I began to look around for some object for my love, since I badly wanted to love something. I had no liking for the safe path without pitfalls, for although my real need was for you, my God, who are the food of the soul, I was not aware of this hunger.”

“How can the past and future be, when the past no longer is, and the future is not yet? As for the present, if it were always present and never moved on to become the past, it would not be time, but eternity.”

“Learn to dance, so when you get to heaven the angels know what to do with you.”

“In the usual course of study I had come to a book of a certain Cicero.”

“Sin is Energy in the wrong channel. ”

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”