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"So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can."
"We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God ."
"There is no greater invitation to love than loving first."
"Don't go outside; get back to yourself, in the inner man lies the Truth."
"Humility is first, second and third in Christianity."
"Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak."
"Whole prayer is nothing but love."
"Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee."
"It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation."
"For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God."
"Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor."
"Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time."
"Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness."
"If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things."
"What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you."
"Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth."
"You are what you love."
"Every city is a living body."
"Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace."
"I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves."