Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

The greatest evil is physical pain.