He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?

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

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

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.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].