The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

Satan is an astute theologian.

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.