There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

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.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

The Gospel acts without threats... it teaches us about the supreme goodwill of God towards us.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

I gave up all for Christ, and what have I found? Everything in Christ.

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.