Reason in man is rather like God in the world.

He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.

It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.