For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

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.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

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.

Unless we fix certain hours in the day for prayer, it easily slips from our memory.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.