Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Just as it is agreed that we all wish to be happy, so it is that we all wish to be wise, since no one without wisdom is happy.

We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.

Let no one flatter himself; of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.