Christ was either liar, lunatic, or Lord!

I cannot go on.... All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.

The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

Behold our refutation of the error. It is not based on documents of faith, but on the reasons and statements of the philosophers themselves. If then anyone there be who, boastfully taking pride in his supposed wisdom, wishes to challenge what we have written, let him not do it in some corner nor before children who are powerless to decide on such difficult matters. Let him reply openly if he dare. He shall find me there confronting him, and not only my negligible self, but many another whose study is truth.

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.