You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your house and now you fear burglars. You have hoarded money and lost sleep. See what greed has commanded you: "Do this!" And you did it.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

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.

For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.