Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

If then you remain constant in faith in the face of trial, the Lord will give you peace and rest for a time in this world, and forever in the next.

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

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

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young