True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.

We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.