By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
Love follows knowledge.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
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.
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.
An angel can illumine the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision and by bringing within his reach some truth which the angel himself contemplates.
Without sanctifying grace it is not possible to refrain long from mortal sin.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.
Grace is a certain beginning of glory in us.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth, and both have helped us in finding it.