Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about.

To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice.

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

Thirst was made for water; inquiry for truth. What you now call the free play of inquiry has neither more nor less to do with the ends for which intelligence was given you than masturbation has to do with marriage.

Hatred obscures all distinctions.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.