Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.