Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Though there are very many nations all over the earth, ...there are no more than two kinds of human society, which we may justly call two cities, ...one consisting of those who live according to man, the other of those who live according to God ....To the City of Man belong the enemies of God, ...so inflamed with hatred against the City of God.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.