A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

The servants of God...whether provoked by word or work, by keeping themselves tranquil and peaceful, evince a perfect nobleness of soul.

All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.

It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.

I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.

Secondly, man sins against nature when he goes against his generic nature, that is to say, his animal nature. Now, it is evident that, in accord with natural order, the union of the sexes among animals is ordered towards conception. From this it follows that every sexual intercourse that cannot lead to conception is opposed to man's animal nature.

Love works in a circle, for the beloved moves the lover by stamping a likeness, and the lover then goes out to hold the beloved inreality. Who first was the beginning now becomes the end of motion.