Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.

The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

If the future and the past really exist, where are they?