Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

There is nothing in your mind which wasn't experienced before hand.

Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.

He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.

The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.

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

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.