There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

Let our chief goal, O God, be your glory, and to enjoy You forever.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

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.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.