Thus the connection of the Father in the Son, and of the Son in the Paraclete, produces three coherent Persons, who are yet distinct One from Another. These three are one [thing], not one [Person], as it is said, 'I and my Father are One,' in respect of unity of substance not singularity of number.

A man becomes a Christian, he is not born one.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

Truth persuades by teaching, but does not teach by persuading.

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.