Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

When God wants to judge a nation, He gives them wicked rulers.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

No man can survey himself without forthwith turning his thoughts towards the God in whom he lives and moves; because it is perfectly obvious, that the endowments which we possess cannot possibly be from ourselves; nay, that our very being is nothing else than subsistence in God alone.

I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.