All men were created to busy themselves with the labor for the common good.

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

This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

If we are proud of our talents we betray our lack of gratitude to God.

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.

For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.