In a false person, sacraments do not produce any effect.

The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

The celestial bodies are the cause of all that takes place in the sublunar world.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.

Given the sin of impiety through which they [the Romans] sinned against the divine nature [by idolatry], the punishment that led them to sin against their own nature followed.... I say, therefore, that since they changed into lies [by idolatry] the truth about God, He brought them to ignominious passions, that is, to sins against nature; not that God led them to evil, but only that he abandoned them to evil.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.