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

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

Do you not know that you are Eve? The judgment of God upon this sex lives on in this age; therefore, necessarily the guilt should live on also. You are the gateway of the devil; you are the one who unseals the curse of that tree, and you are the first one to turn your back on the divine law; you are the one who persuaded him whom the devil was not capable of corrupting; you easily destroyed the image of God, Adam. Because of what you deserve, that is, death, even the Son of God had to die.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

You can judge the quality of their faith from the way they behave. Discipline is an index to doctrine.

Prevention of birth is a precipitation of murder.

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.