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

Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

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.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.