Confessions

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance ' You oh God 'towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with externa…

Theft is punished by Your law, O Lord, and by the law written in men's hearts, which iniquity itself cannot blot out. For what thief will suffer a thief? Even a rich thief will not suffer him who is driven to it by want.…

Do they desire to join me in thanksgiving when they hear how, by your gift, I have come close to you, and do they pray for me when they hear how I am held back by my own weight? ...A brotherly mind will love in me what y…

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next... They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zen…