When consent takes the form of seeking to possess the things we wish, this is called desire. When consent takes the form of enjoying the things we wish, this is called joy.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

Purity both of the body and the soul rests on the steadfastness of the will strengthened by God's grace, and cannot be forcibly taken from an unwilling person.

... The soul which is led by God and His wisdom, rather than by bodily concupiscence, will certainly never consent to the desire aroused in its own flesh by another's lust.

A wholesome fear would be a fit guardian for the citizens.

There could be nothing more fortunate for human affairs than that by the mercy of God they who are endowed with true piety of life if they have the skill for ruling people should also have the power.

He that becomes protector of sin shall surely become its prisoner.

Humility raises us not by human arrogance but by divine grace.

This is pride when the soul abandons Him to Whom it ought to cleave as its end and becomes a kind of end to itself. This happens when it becomes its own satisfaction.

His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.

... the earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.

A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.

Morality divorced from the doctrines of the gospel is not that holiness which the gospel requires.

The Bible informs, reforms and transforms. Other books merely informs

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

Develop your reflective will and gain better insight before you say or do something.

The Beatles had just come out, and everybody had a band. It was incredible competition out there.

The freedom of Mankind does not lie in the fact that can do what we want, but that we do not have to do that which we do not want.

So much of the world and the systems that we live within are made to keep us from feeling like we're free. The way that black women in American came to be is just diametrically opposed to being free.

Our challenge is to find the compassion for others that we want them to have for us.

You can say the right thing about a product and nobody will listen. You’ve got to say it in such a way that people will feel it in their gut. Because if they don’t feel it, nothing will happen.