In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.

Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.

All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

For, to my mind, this is a certain principle, that nothing is here treated of but the visible form of the world. He who would learn astronomy, and other recondite arts, let him go elsewhere. (on commenting the text of Genesis 1:6)

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.