All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.

We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.