Each needs the other: capital cannot do without labor, nor labor without capital.

As the world attracts us with its appearance, and abundance and variety, it is not easy to turn away from it unless in the beauty of things visible the Creator rather than the creature is loved; for, when He says, 'you shall love the Lord your God from all your heart, and from all your mind, and from all your strength' (Mt. 22:37), He wishes us in nothing to loosen ourselves from the bonds of His love. And when He links the love of our neighbor also to this command, He enjoins on us the imitation of His own goodness, that we should love what He loves and do what He does.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

Beyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.