Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

It can be shown that an incorporeal and reasonable being has life in itself independently of the body... then it is beyond a doubt bodies are only of secondary importance and arise from time to time to meet the varying conditions of reasonable creatures. Those who require bodies are clothed with them, and contrariwise, when fallen souls have lifted themselves up to better things their bodies are once more annihilated. They are ever vanishing and ever reappearing.

Although Christ was God, he took flesh; and having been made man, he remained what he was, God.

You yourself are even another little world and have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars.

What each man honours before all else, what before all things he admires and loves, this for him is God.

Those who believe the Author of Nature to be also the Author of Scripture must expect to find in Scripture the same sorts of difficulties that they find in Nature.

It is in our power to stretch out our arms and, by doing good in our actions, to seize life and set it in our soul.