"Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord."

"What did it profit that I read the greatest human ideas of the so-called 'liberal arts' in the books I got hold of. My thinking was enslaved to corrupt desires, so what difference did it make that I c…"

"There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride."

"Our first parents [Adam and Eve] fell into an open disobedience because already they were secretly corrupted; for the evil act had never been done had not an evil will preceded it."

"God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering."