Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

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

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.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.