Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he has believed, he must circumcise himself from his sins [in baptism (Col. 2:11-12)] so that he can be saved . . . for no one ascends into the kingdom of heaven except through the sacrament of baptism . . . "Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God"

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

As the print of the seal on the wax is the express image of the seal itself, so Christ is the express image - the perfect representation of God.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.