To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

There is no work, however vile or sordid, that does not glisten before God.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.