Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

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

When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.

Understanding is the wages of faith.