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

We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.

The existence of a prime mover- nothing can move itself; there must be a first mover. The first mover is called God.

Likewise grace and glory are referred to the same genus, since grace is nothing other than a certain first beginning of glory in us.

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.

Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.

It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.