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

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture.

What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.