No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.

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

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.

To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

If a preacher is not first preaching to himself, better that he falls on the steps of the pulpit and breaks his neck than preaches that sermon.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.