“Nothing can hurt you except sin; nothing can grieve me except sin; nothing can defeat you except sin. Therefore, be on your guard, my Mansoul.”

“There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.”

“Nothing binds you except your thoughts; nothing limits you except your fear; and nothing controls you except your beliefs.”

“No sin is unforgivable except the sin that is not repented of.”

“There is nothing you can do about the past except keep it there.”

“There is no sin except stupidity.”

“Study nothing except in the knowledge that you already knew it. Worship nothing except in adoration of your true self. And fear nothing except in the certainty that you are your enemy's begetter and its only hope of healing.”

“nothing can save
you
except
writing.
it keeps the walls
from
failing.”

“When there's nothing you can do except worry, that's a good time to worry.”

“… and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”