Man is man because he is free to operate within a framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives. He is distinguished from animals by his freedom to do evil or to do good and to walk the high road of beauty or tread the low road of ugly degeneracy.

Reason should be destroyed in all Christians.

Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover

If anyone could have gained heaven as a monk, then I would indeed have been among them.

...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil.

Forgiveness is God's command.

The curses of the ungodly are more pleasing to God's ears than the hallelujahs of the pious