"He who says that a theologian who is not a logician is a heretic and an adventurer, maintains an adventurous and heretical proposition.
"There is no form of reasoning (syllogism) which accords with the things of God.[286]
"If the form of the syllogism could be applied to divine things, we should know the article of the Holy Trinity, and should not believe it.
"In one word, Aristotle is to theology as darkness to light.
"Man is more hostile to the grace of God than he is to the law itself.
"He who is without the grace of God sins incessantly, even though he neither kills, nor steals, nor commits adultery.
"He sins, for he does not fulfil the law spiritually.
"Not to kill, and not to commit adultery, externally, and in regard to action, merely, is the righteousness of hypocrites.
"The law of God and the will of man are two adversaries, who, without the grace of God, can never agree.[287]
"What the law wishes the will never wishes; only from fear it may make a show of wishing.