Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

In Romans 7, St. Paul says, "The law is spiritual." What does that mean? If the law were physical, then it could be satisfied by works, but since it is spiritual, no one can satisfy it unless everything he does springs from the depths of the heart. But no one can give such a heart except the Spirit of God, who makes the person be like the law, so that he actually conceives a heartfelt longing for the law and henceforward does everything, not through fear or coercion, but from a free heart.

The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning.

Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

Music must be supported by the king and the princes, for the maintenance of the arts is their duty no less than the maintenance of the laws.