True faith is ever connected with hope.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

No Task will be so sordid and base, provided you obey your calling in it, that it will not shine and be reckoned very precious in God's sight.

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

We explain justification simply as the acceptance with which God receives us into his favor as righteous men. And we say that it consists in the remission of sins and the imputation of Christ’s righteousness.

As by the revolt of the first man, the image of God could be effaced from his mind and soul, so there is nothing strange in His shedding some rays of grace on the reprobate, and afterwards allowing these to be extinguished.