To know God as the sovereign disposer of all good, inviting us to present our requests, and yet not to approach or ask of him, were so far from availing us, that it were just as if one told of a treasure were to allow it to remain buried in the ground.

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

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

We are surrounded by God’s benefits. The best use of these benefits is an unceasing expression of gratitude.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.