Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

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.

Man can sin against nature in two ways. First, when he sins against his specific rational nature, acting contrary to reason. In this sense, we can say that every sin is a sin against man's nature, because it is against man's right reason.

I answer that, Even, as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate.

A person is disposed to an act of choice by an angel ... in two ways. Sometimes, a man's understanding is enlightened by an angel to know what is good, but it is not instructed as to the reason why ... But sometimes he is instructed by angelic illumination, both that this act is good and as to the reason why it is good.

There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.