If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.