If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

If there were some solitary or feral man, the passions of the soul would be sufficient for him; by them he would be conformed to things in order that he might have knowledge of them. But because man is naturally political and social, there is need for one man to make his conceptions known to others, which is done with speech. So significant speech was needed if men were to live together. Which is why those of different tongues do not easily live together.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

A man should remind himself that an object of faith is not scientifically demonstrable, lest presuming to demonstrate what is of faith, he should produce inconclusive reasons and offer occasion for unbelievers to scoff at a faith based on such ground.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.