Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

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

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.