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.

The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker and Father of the universe.

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

All our life is like a day of celebration for us; we are convinced, in fact, that God is always everywhere. We work while singing, we sail while reciting hymns, we accomplish all other occupations of life while praying.

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.

The Word of God became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.

The rule of life for a perfect person is to be in the image and likeness of God.