It is only God who creates. Man merely rearranges.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.

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.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.