Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms.

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

The playthings of our elders are called business.