Sheep, cattle, men-servants were all possessions to be sold as it pleased their masters. It were a good thing were it still so. For else no man may compel nor tame the servile folk.

But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

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

War for the sake of war is sin, but war for the sake of defense is duty.

People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.

It is impossible for a man to be a Christian without having Christ; and if he has Christ he has at the same time all that is in Christ.

He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ.