You change people by delight, by pleasure.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

For those with faith, no evidence is necessary; for those without it, no evidence will suffice.

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.