Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

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

For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.