Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

God has aroused the spirit of kings and princes to root up from the earth the enemies of the Christian name. Therefore gird yourselves manfully and take up joyful arms for the name of Christ.

Have death always before your eyes as a salutary means of returning to God.

God will either give us what we ask, or what He knows to be better for us.

There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.

I know by myself how incomprehensible God is, seeing I cannot comprehend the parts of my own being.