This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

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.