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

Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.

Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.

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

Reasoning is compared to understanding as movement is to rest, or acquisition to possession.... Since movement always proceeds from something immovable, and ends in something at rest, hence it is that human reasoning, in the order of inquiry and discovery, proceeds from certain things absolutely understood--namely, the first principles; and, again, in the order of judgment, returns by analysis to first principles, in the light of which it examines what it has found. Now it is clear that rest and movement are not to be referred to different powers, but to one and the same.