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.
Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.
It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
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.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
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.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
All that is true, by whomsoever it has been said has its origin in the Spirit.
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
Now this relaxation of the mind from work consists on playful words or deeds. Therefore it becomes a wise and virtuous man to have recourse to such things at times.