Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

A child of those tears. [Lat., Filius istarum lacrymarum.]

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

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

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.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.