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

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

It is therefore faith alone which justifies, and yet the faith which justifies is not alone.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.