As is the business of tailors to make clothes and cobblers to make shoes, so it is the business of Christians to pray.

Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.

I have such hatred of divorce that I prefer bigamy to divorce. Anyway, I think we should see other people.

I am persuaded that without knowledge of literature pure theology cannot at all endure. . . . When letters have declined and lain prostrate, theology, too, has wretchedly fallen and lain prostrate. . . . It is my desire that there shall be as many poets and rhetoricians as possible, because I see that by these studies as by no other means, people are wonderfully fitted for the grasping of sacred truth and for handling it skillfully and happily.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

I do not admit that my doctrine can be judged by anyone.

As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything.