The world suffers nothing from Christians but hates them because they reject its pleasures.

In that we say he [Christ] made whole the lame, the paralytic, and those born blind, we seem to say what is very similar to the deeds said to have been done by Esculapius.

God called Abraham and commanded him to go out from the country where he was living. With this call God has roused us all, and now we have left the state. We have renounced all the things the world offers.... The gods of the nations are demons.

Not as common bread or as common drink do we receive these.....We have been taught that the food that has been Eucharistized by the word of prayer, that food which by assimilation nourishes our flesh and blood, is the flesh and blood of the incarnate Jesus.

Let it be understood that those who are not found living as He taught are not Christian- even though they profess with the lips the teaching of Christ.

By examining the tongue of the patient, physicians find out the diseases of the body, and philosophers the diseases of the mind.

No one who is rightly minded turns from true belief to false.