He must pull out his own eyes, and see no creature, before he can say, he sees no God; He must be no man, and quench his reasonable soul, before he can say to himself, there is no God.
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Reason is our soul's left hand, faith her right, by these we reach divinity.
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I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.
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Man is not only a contributory creature, but a total creature; he does not only make one, but he is all; he is not a piece of the world, but the world itself; and next to the glory of God, the reason why there is a world.
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As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.
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God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wisdom)
Pleasure is none, if not diversified.
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Perchance, he for whom this bell tolls may be so ill, as that he knows not it tolls for him.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Death)
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to be dead, but win me, and overcome me. When I must shipwreck, I would do it in a sea, where mine impotency might have some excuse; not in a sullen weedy lake, where I could not have so much as exercise for my swimming.
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in Quotes & Aphorisms (Love)
Take me to you, imprison me, for I, except you enthrall me, never shall be free, nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.
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