If... the motion of the earth were circular, it would be violent and contrary to nature, and could not be eternal, since ... nothing violent is eternal .... It follows, therefore, that the earth is not moved with a circular motion.

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

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.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

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

Give, expecting nothing there of.