The true measure of loving God is to love him without measure.

A pretext is never lacking to him who would break with a friend.

Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.

For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.

Grace is necessary to salvation, free will equally so - but grace in order to give salvation, free will in order to receive it.

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.

I have no other masters than the beeches and the oaks.