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

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

The blindness of unbelievers in no way detracts from the clarity of the gospel; the sun is no less bright because blind men do not perceive its light.

Our prayer must not be self-centered. It must arise not only because we feel our own need as a burden we must lay upon God, but also because we are so bound up in love for our fellow men that we feel their need as acutely as our own. To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.