"For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism."

"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature."

"The human nature, which first existed, is praised by these men as being so far less tainted with evil manners?"

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

"The things we love and desire are not ours to hold. Love turns false and dangerous when we assert ourselves as the masters of our universe. Our original sin, in Augustine's view, is the human conditio…"