If we did a good act merely from love of God and a belief that it is pleasing to Him, whence arises the morality of the Atheist?. . . Their virtue, then, must have had some other foundation than the love of God.
The dove, O hawk, that has once been wounded by thy talons, is frightened by the least movement of a wing. [Lat. , Terretur minimo pennae stridore columba Unguibus, accipiter, saucia facta tuis. ]