Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.
Augustine does not disagree with this when he teaches that it is a faculty of the reason and the will to choose good with the assistance of grace; evil, when grace is absent.
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.