Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Our physical illnesses serve us for medicines to purge us from worldly affections and retrench what is superfluous in us, and since they are to us the messengers of death, we ought to learn to have one foot raised to take our departure when it shall please God.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.