God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.

I entered (into my inward self) and beheld with the eye of my soul...the Light Unchangeable.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

Who else is it who calls us back from the death of error, except the life that does not know death, and the wisdom which, needing no light, enlightens minds which are in darkness, that wisdom by which the whole world, even to the leaves of trees drifting in the wind, is governed?