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

• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.
• Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
• Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
• Love is the beauty of the soul.
• 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.
• Faith is to believe what you do not see the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
• Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
• What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.