Colleen

“... there is no place whatever for hatred in the minds of the wise. Only an utter idiot would hate good men, and it is irrational to hate the wicked; for if vice is a species of mental disease comparable to illness in the body, since we regard those who are physically ill as wholly undeserving of hatred and deserving rather of pity, then men with minds oppressed by wickedness, a condition more dreadful than any sickness, should all the more be pitied rather than hounded.”
― Boethius, The Consolation of Philosophy

“No one could doubt that God is omnipotent.’

‘No one, at any rate, who is in his right mind would have any doubt about it.’

‘But there is nothing that an omnipotent power could not do?’

‘No.’

‘Then, can God do evil?’

‘No.’

‘So that evil is nothing, since that is what He cannot do who can do anything.”
― Boethius, Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy;

“For the nature of man is such that he is better than other things only when he knows himself, and yet if he ceases to know himself he is made lower than the brutes. For it is natural for other animals not to have this self-knowledge; in man it is a fault. How far from your true state have you wandered when you think you can be at all improved by the addition of the beauties of other things!”
― Boethius, Theological Tractates/The Consolation of Philosophy

“There is either being caught up in thinking, or there is a moment of rigpa.”
― Tulku Urgyen, As It Is, Volume II