Let us consider this settled, that no one has made progress in the school of Christ who does not joyfully await the day of death and final resurrection.

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

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.

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.