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."

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.