We may rest assured that God would never have suffered any infants to be slain except those who were already damned and predestined for eternal death.

We are nowhere forbidden to laugh.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

Joy and patience are far above our strength... We must persevere in prayer that he may not permit our hearts to faint... Prayer and perseverance are necessary in our daily conflicts. The best remedy to the weariness is diligence in prayer.

We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small, awaken it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is weak, and raise it up when it is overthrown.

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

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.