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.

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

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.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

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

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed art thou from my vision, though I am so near to thine! Everywhere thou art wholly present, and I see thee not. In thee I move, and in thee I have my being; and I cannot come to thee. Thou art within me, and about me, and I feel thee not.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.