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

Satan is an astute theologian.

Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

Faith is not a distant view, but a warm embrace of Christ.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

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

We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.