Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

What can be accomplished by a few principles is not effected by many. But it seems that everything we see in the world can be accounted for by other principles, supposing God did not exist. For all natural things can be reduced to one principle, which is nature, and all voluntary things can be reduced to one principle, which is human reason, or will. Therefore there is no need to suppose God's existence.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.

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

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