Just as God's will is creation and is called 'the world' so His intention is the salvation of men, and it is called 'the Church.'

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

It is absolutely impossible at the same time to be a man of understanding and not to be ashamed to gratify the body.

He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating an image of them here on earth]. Nor is there at all any composite thing or creature endowed with sensation [made by God here on earth] like those in heaven. But the face is a symbol of the rational soul, the wings are the lofty ministers and energies of powers right and left, and the voice is delightful glory in endless contemplation.

Above all Christians are not allowed to correct by violence sinful wrongdoings.

But it is with a different kind of spell that art deludes you ... it leads you to pay religious honor and worship to images and pictures.

We must not cast away riches which can benefit our neighbor. Possessions were made to be possessed; goods are called goods because they do good, and they have been provided by God for the good of men: they are at hand and serve as the material, the instruments for a good use in the hand of him who knows how to use them.