Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.