Is there any man that thinks in chains like the man who calls himself a free-thinker? Is there any man so credulous as the man who will not believe in the Bible? He swallows a ton of difficulties, and yet complains that we have swallowed an ounce of them. He has much more need of faith of a certain sort than we have, for skepticism has far harder problems than faith.

Not that our salvation should be the effect of our work, but our work should be the evidence of our salvation.

It is the surest proof of man's natural enmity against God that he dares to impute falsehood to one who is truth itself.

The first link between my soul and Christ is not my goodness but my badness, not my merit but my misery, not my riches but my need.

Idle men tempt the devil to tempt them.

I would bear any affliction rather than be burdened with a guilty conscience.

The Devil has seldom done a cleverer thing that hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. Providing amusement for the people is nowhere spoken of in the Scriptures as a function of the Church. The need is biblical doctrine, so understood and felt that is sets men afire.