For instantly, as the sentence ended, there was infused in my heart something like the light of full certainty and all the gloom of doubt vanished aw… - Augustine of Hippo

Caritas radix est omnium operum bonorum.

If any one will piously and soberly consider the sermon which our Lord Jesus spoke on the mount, as we read it in the Gospel according to Matthew, I think that he will find in it, so far as regards the highest morals, a perfect standard of the Christian life: and this we do not rashly venture to promise, but gather it from the very words of the Lord Himself. For the sermon itself is brought to a close in such a way, that it is clear there are in it all the precepts which go to mould the life. … He has sufficiently indicated, as I think, that these sayings which He uttered on the mount so perfectly guide the life of those who may be willing to live according to them, that they may justly be compared to one building upon a rock.

Variation on the middle sentence: A thing is not necessarily false because it is badly expressed, nor true because it is expressed magnificently.