But a most pernicious error widely prevails that Scripture has only so much weight as is conceded to it by the consent of the church. As if the eternal and inviolable truth of God depended upon the decision of men!
God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.
Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.
Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.
Repentance is the true turning of our life to God, a turning that arises from a pure and earnest fear of Him; and it consists in the mortification of the flesh and the renewing of the Spirit.
The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.
The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.
Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.
We are promised abundance of all good things – yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!
Christ’s intercession is the continual application of his death to our salvation.
All the arts come from God and are to be respected as divine inventions.
Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.
We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.
Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.
A man that extols himself is a fool and an idiot.
True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness.