Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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

All truth is God's truth.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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.

Original sin, therefore, appears to be a hereditary, depravity and corruption of our nature, diffused through all the parts of the soul, rendering us obnoxious to the divine wrath and producing in us those works which the scripture calls 'works of.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.