Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.