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

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Good and evil are essential differences of the act of the will. For good and evil pertain essentially to the will; just as truth and falsehood pertain to the reason, the act of which is distinguished essentially by the difference of truth and falsehood (according as we say that an opinion is true or false.) Consequently, good and evil volition are acts differing in species.