Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.

That man is truly humble who neither claims any personal merit in the sight of God, nor proudly despises brethren, or aims at being thought superior to them, but reckons it enough that he is one of the members of Christ, and desires nothing more than that the Head alone should be exalted.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.