The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

What will you do if your product still further increases next year? You should then destroy again the warehouses which you are now preparing to build, and build bigger. For the reason why God has given you fruitful harvests is that He might either overcome your avarice or condemn it; wherefore you can have no excuse. But you keep for yourself what He wished to be produced through you for the benefit of many - nay, rather, you rob even yourself of it, since you would better preserve it for yourself if you distributed it to others.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.

As in paradise, God walks in the Holy Scriptures, seeking man.