Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Understanding is the reward of faith.

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."

Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.