"Just as the believer who has committed some other sin must, despite his faith, face judgment, so too the nonbeliever who has done a good work will, despite his lack of faith, not be deprived of his reward." (Commentary on Romans)
"'When someone turns to the Lord, this veil is removed; for where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom' (2 Cor. 3:16-17). Therefore we must beseech the Lord himself, the Holy Spirit himself, to take away all the fog and darkness which, heaped up by the filth of sin, darkens the vision of our heart, so that we might be able to gaze on the marvelous spiritual meaning of his law, just like the Psalmist who said, 'Open my eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of your law' (Ps. 119.18)." (Homily on Leviticus)
"How do you know that Sodom and Gomorrah might not have already paid in this life their debt of suffering? Listen to the testimony of scripture. Do you want to hear what the Old Testament says? 'Sodom shall return to its former estate' (Ezek. 16:55); and you still have doubts whether the Lord is good in punishing the Sodomites?" (Homily on Ezekiel)
"Jesus, by his coming, brings about both: judging the world and saving it, but the one by means of the other. For he came into the world to judge it in order to save it (for he does not save it in order to judge it), and like a doctor comes to the sick in order to heal them."
(Commentary on the Gospel of John)
"Because the WORD and its healing power is stronger than all the evils in the soul, he applies this power to each one according to God's will; and the end of all things is the elimination of evil."
(Contra Celsum)
"But in this purification which is obtained through the punishment of fire, how much time and how many ages of punishment may be required of sinners, only he can know to whom 'the Father has given all judgment (Jn 5:22), who so loves his creation that for it 'he emptied himself' of the 'form of God, taking the form of a servant, humbling himself unto death' (cf. Phil 2:6-8), desiring 'all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth' (2 Tim 2:4)." (Commentary on Romans)
"If 'every knee bows' before Jesus (cf. Phil 2:10)...it is through wisdom, that is, by the WORD and by reason, not by force and necessity, that they are put in subjection." (On First Principles)
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