For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make men rejoice.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

We are not to look to what men in themselves deserve but to attend to the image of God which exists in all and to which we owe all honor and love.

When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.

While all men seek after happiness, scarcely one in a hundred looks for it from God.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.