A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.

The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.

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

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.

Love must precede hatred, and nothing is hated save through being contrary to a suitable thing which is loved. And hence it is that every hatred is caused by love.

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

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.