It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

Practical sciences proceed by building up; theoretical science by resolving into components.

As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.

The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.

The same fire" (which he decides to be material) " torments the damned in hell and the just in purgatory...The least pain in purgatory exceeds the greatest in this life.

Evil denotes the lack of good. Not every absence of good is an evil, for absence may be taken either in a purely negative or in aprivative sense. Mere negation does not display the character of evil, otherwise nonexistents would be evil and moreover, a thing would be evil for not possessing the goodness of something else, which would mean that man is bad for not having the strength of a lion or the speed of a wild goat. But what is evil is privation; in this sense blindness means the privation of sight.

The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.