Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

You don't love in your enemies what they are, but what you would have them become by your prayers.

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.