To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven.

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

It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.