Where our work is, there let our joy be.

The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.

He has inhibited discussion by designating admonition as the method of dealing with a heretic- and the first method, too, because he is not a Christian. This is so that he would not seem to require correction again and again and before two or three witnesses as though he were a Christian. He ought to be corrected for the very reason that he is not to be disputed with. In addition, this is said because a controversy over the Scriptures can, clearly, produce no other effect than help to upset either the stomach or the brain.

The angels as the guardians of men are set over men as instructors and monitors. This shows the relationship that is to exist between them. Man's attitude is to be one of obedience and subjection. He is to follow the lead of the angels, and consequently some reverence is already implied in the very relationship that exists between man and angel.

Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

You cannot parcel out freedom in pieces because freedom is all or nothing.