Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just.

If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.