Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.