Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

Others drink for sterility and commit murder on the human not yet sown. Some when they sense that they have conceived by sin, consider the poisons for abortion, and frequently die themselves along with it, and go to Hell guilty of three crimes: murdering themselves, committing adultery against Christ, and murder against their unborn child.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.

My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.