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.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
Beware of the person of one book.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Because of the diverse conditions of humans, it happens that some acts are virtuous to some people, as appropriate and suitable to them, while the same acts are immoral for others, as inappropriate to them.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
It is necessary to posit something which is necessary of itself, and has no cause of its necessity outside of itself but is the cause of necessity in other things. And all people call this thing God.
Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
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.
To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.
