Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

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

Let the emperor make war on heaven; let him lead heaven captive in his triumph; let him put guards on heaven; let him impose taxes on heaven! He cannot. . . . He gets his sceptre where he first got his humanity; his power where he got the breath of life.

Christians are made, not born.

Every soul, then, by reason of its birth, has its nature in Adam until it is born again in Christ; moreover, it is unclean all the while that it remains without this regeneration; and because unclean, it is actively sinful, and suffuses even the flesh (by reason of their conjunction) with its own shame.

Daily, every moment, prayer is necessary to men.

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