A holy woman may be beautiful by the gift of nature, but she must not give occasion to lust. If beauty be hers, so far from setting it off she ought rather to obscure it.

It is a fundamental human right, a privilege of nature, that every man should worship according to his own convictions.

To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

It is our care for the helpless, our practice of loving kindness, that brands us in the eyes of those who oppose us.

In pain shall you bring forth children, woman, and you shall turn to your husband and he shall rule over you. And do you not know that you are Eve? God's sentence hangs still over all your sex and His punishment weighs down upon you. You are the devil's gateway; you are she who first violated the forbidden tree and broke the law of God. It was you who coaxed your way around him whom the devil had not the force to attack. With what ease you shattered that image of God: Man! Because of the death you merited, even the Son of God had to die... Woman, you are the gate to hell.

Christ, in disarming Peter, disarmed every soldier.

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