To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.

We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.

He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.

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.

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

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

God himself would not permit evil in this world if good did not come of it for the benefit and harmony of the universe.