For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

Our assurance, our glory, and the sole anchor of our salvation are that Christ the Son of God is ours, and we in turn are in him sons of God and heirs of the Kingdom of Heaven, called to the hope of eternal blessedness by God's grace, not by our worth.

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

Bien que les étoiles ne parlent pas, même en étant silencieux, ils crient. Although the stars do not speak, even in being silent they cry out.