Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

Now then, you dogs, whom the apostle puts outside and who yelp at the God of truth, let us come to your various questions.

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

Fear is the foundation of safety.

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.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

If we refuse our homage to statues and frigid images, the very counterpart of their dead originals, with which hawks, and mice, and spiders are so well acquainted, does it not merit praise instead of penalty [Christians were punished for not worshiping Roman gods] that we have rejected what we have come to see is error? We cannot surely be made out to injure those whom we are certain are nonentities. What does not exist is in its nonexistence secure from suffering.