Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

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

Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.

Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.