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• Marriage is not a good, but it is a good in comparison with fornication.
  ... Continence is a greater good than marriage. But I am aware of some that murmu...
• We are ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolish- ness of God.
  St. Augustine (354-430 CE) "On Christian Doctrine" (396-427)...
• He cannot have God for his father who refuses to have the Church for his mother.
  St. Augustine (354-430 CE) "De Sybolo...
• Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine (354-430 CE) "Soliloquium Animae..
• They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape
  or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water....
• There is no possible source of evil except good. -- St.
  Augustine (354-430 CE) "Contra Julia...
• Man is the handwork of God. There is certainly nothing in us that is impure.
  -- St. Athanasius (293-373 CE)...
• Necessity has no law. -- St. Augustine
• An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized.
  For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride....