Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

A man does not always choose what his guardian angel intends.

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

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

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

If all the sins of the flesh are worthy of condemnation because by them man allows himself to be dominated by that which he has of the animal nature, much more deserving of condemnation are the sins against nature by which man degrades his own animal nature.