Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

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

Man with all his shrewdness is as stupid about understanding by himself the mysteries of God, as an ass is incapable of understanding musical harmony.

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

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

God preordained, for his own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.

The flesh is willing to flatter itself, and many who now give themselves every indulgence, promise to themselves an easy entrance into life. THus men practice mutual deception on each other and fall asleep in wicked indifference.