He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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.

I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.