"Although this little book (which is called “discourses,” not sermons, because its author does not have authority to p…"

"There is talk of the good things of the world, of health, happy times, prosperity, power, good fortune, a glorious fa…"

"If one person went to another and said to him, I have often heard faith extolled as the most glorious good: I feel th…"

"If by my wishing or by my gift I could bestow upon him the highest good” he said, “then I could also take it from him…"

"How, then, shall we face the future? When the sailor is out on the ocean, when everything is changing all around him,…"

"“When the world commences its drastic ordeal, when the storms of life crush youth’s exuberant expectancy, when existe…"

"Knowledge of the truth I may perhaps have attained to; happiness certainly not. What shall I do? Accomplish something…"

"If you had loved people then the earnestness of life might have taught you not to be strident but to become silent, a…"

"An expectancy that without a specified time and place is nothing but a deception; In that way one may always go on wa…"

"When you had doubts about what came from God or about what was a good and perfect gift, did you risk the venture? And…"