Now the images and temples constructed by mechanics are made of inert matter, so that they too are inert, material, and profane. Even if you perfect the art, it partakes of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred and divine.

The purified righteous man has become a coin of the Lord, and has the impress of his King stamped upon him.

It is not your outward appearance that you should beautify, but your soul, adorning it with good works.

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.

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

GOD became man so that we in our turn may become God.

For the Divine Being cannot be declared as it exists: but as we who are fettered in the flesh were able to listen, so the prophets spake to us; the Lord savingly accommodating Himself to the weakness of men.