Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.