Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.