Inasmuch as love grows in you, in so much beauty grows; for love is itself the beauty of the soul.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

The inclination to seek the truth is safer than the presumption which regards unknown things as known.

I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God, and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit.