There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

But a problem occurs about nothing. For that from which something is made is a cause of the thing made from it; and, necessarily,every cause contributes some assistance to the effect's existence.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

Idleness is the enemy of the soul.