Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

My dear pope, I will kiss your feet and acknowledge you as supreme bishop if you will worship my Christ and grant that through His death and resurrection, not through keeping your traditions, we have forgiveness of sins and life eternal.

God is a blank sheet upon which nothing is found but what you yourself have written.

If God is to create or to preserve a creature, God must be present and must make and preserve God's creation both in its innermost and outermost aspects.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

A unjust law, is no law at all.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.