Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

Better to illuminate than merely to shine.

We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.

The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.