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

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.

Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.