It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.
The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart.
A person whodoes not regard music as a marvelous creation of God, must be a clodhopper indeed and does not deserve to be called a human being; he should be permitted to hear nothing but the braying of asses and the grunting of hogs.
Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.
To do so no more is the truest repentance.
Blessed is he who submits to the will of God; he can never be unhappy.
No great saint lived without errors.
Is it not wonderful news to believe that salvation lies outside ourselves?
It is pleasing to the dear God whenever thou rejoicest or laughest from the bottom of thy heart.
Faith is the ‘yes’ of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one’s life.
All who call on God in true faith, earnestly from the heart, will certainly be heard, and will receive what they have asked and desired.
To pray well is the better half of study.
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.
For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant.
Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way.
Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
Every book is a great action and every great action is a book!
I’ve got so much work to do today, I’d better spend two hours in prayer instead of one.
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.