It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

I revere the fullness of His Scripture, in which He manifests to me both the Creator and creation. In the gospel moreover, I discover a Minister and Witness of the Creator, even His Word.

A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

In our case, murder being once for all forbidden, we may not destroy even the foetus in the womb, while as yet the human being derives blood from other parts of the body for its sustenance. To hinder a birth is merely a speedier mankilling; nor does it matter whether you take away a life that is born, or destroy one that is coming to the birth. That is a man which is going to be one; you have the fruit already in the seed.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

Two kinds of blindness are easily combined so that those who do not see really appear to see what is not.