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

And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living.

The first reaction to truth is hatred.

The Law found more than it lost when Christ said, ‘Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven’ (Matthew 5:44-45). This most important commandment summarizes in a word the universal discipline of patience, since it does not allow us to do evil even to people who deserve it.

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

For it is really better for us not to know a thing, because [God] has not revealed it to us, than to know it according to man’s wisdom, because he has been bold enough to assume it.

For what war should we not be fit and eager, even though unequal in numbers, we who are so willing to be slaughtered-if, according to that discipline of ours, it was not more lawful to be slain than to slay?