Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

Where riches hold the dominion of the heart, God has lost His authority.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

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