Reason in man is rather like God in the world.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
Beware of the person of one book.
The apostles and their successors are God’s vicars in governing the Church which is built on faith and the sacraments of faith. Wherefore, just as they may not institute another Church, so neither may they deliver another faith, nor institute other sacraments.
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
The image of God always abides in the soul, whether this image be obsolete and clouded over as to amount to almost nothing; or whether it be obscured or disfigured, as is the case with sinners; or whether it be clear and beautiful as is the case with the just.
Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary’s maternal intercession.
All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.
Give, expecting nothing there of.
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
The happy man in this life needs friends.
Justice is in subjects as well as in rulers.
It is a sin directly against one’s neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.
If a man deliberately abstains from wine to such an extent that he does serious harm to his nature, he will not be free from blame.
Prostitution in the towns is like the cesspool in the palace: take away the cesspool and the palace will become an unclean and evil-smelling place.
O saving Victim, opening wide The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side, Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
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