Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

All true knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Free will does not enable any man to perform good works, unless he is assisted by grace; indeed, the special grace which the elect alone receive through regeneration. For I stay not to consider the extravagance of those who say that grace is offered equally and promiscuously to all

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.