If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

We never do evil so effectually as when we are led to do it by a false principle of conscience.

How hollow is the heart of man, and how full of excrement!

(Man,) the glory and the scandal of the universe.