Augustine of Hippo

Pride has so stopped the ears of their heart that the Pelagians do not hear, "For what have you that you have not received?" They do not hear, "Without me you can do nothing." They do not hear, "Love is of God." They do not hear, "God has dealt the measure of faith." They do not hear, "The Spirit breathes where it will," and, "They who are led by the Spirit of God, they are the children of God." They do not hear, "No one can come to me, unless it were given him of my Father." They do not hear what Esdras writes, "Blessed is the Lord of our ancestors, who has put into the heart of the king to glorify his house that is in Jerusalem." They do not hear what the Lord says by Jeremiah, "And I will put my fear into their heart, that they do not depart from me. I will visit them to make them good." They do not hear that word by Ezekiel the prophet, where God fully shows that he is not induced to make people good because they deserve good, that is, because they obey his commands, but rather that he repays to them good for evil, by doing this for his own sake and not for theirs.

“And let them who know your name hope in you” when they shall have ceased hoping in wealth and in the other enticements of this world. For the soul indeed that seeks where to fix its hope, when it is torn away from this world, the knowledge of God’s name seasonably receives. For the mere name of God has now been published everywhere. When you know someone, you know his name. For the name is not a name for its own sake but for that which it signifies. Now it has been said, “The Lord is his name.” Therefore those who willingly submit to God as his servants have known this name.

Doubtless you are not unaware that in the early history of the chosen people the sacrilege of idolatry was committed and a prophetic book burned by a scornful king. But the crime of schism would not be punished more severely than any of these acts unless it were considered more grievous. Surely you remember how the earth opened and swallowed up alive the authors of schism and how fire coming down from heaven destroyed those who followed them. But neither the making and adoring of an idol nor the burning of a sacred book deserve to meet such vengeance.