“We must now take precautions to prevent you from being embarrassed by something in which the ignorant majority is at fault for lack of proper consideration, and so from supposing with them, that man has not been created truly good simply because he is able to do evil. … If you reconsider this matter carefully and force your mind to apply a more acute understanding to it, it will be revealed to you that man's status is better and higher for the very reason for which it is thought to be inferior: it is on this choice between two ways, on this freedom to choose either alternative, that the glory of the rational mind is based, it is in this that the whole honor of our nature consists, it is from this that its dignity is derived.”Pelagius Letter to Demetrias
“Do you consider a man to be a Christian by whose bread no hungry man is ever filled?”Pelagius On The Christian Life
“Unless a man has despised worldly things, he shall not receive those which are divine.”Pelagius On The Christian Life
“Let no man judge himself to be a Christian, unless he is one who both follows the teaching of Christ and imitates his example.”Pelagius On The Christian Life