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.

Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection.

Man's mind is like a store of idolatry and superstition; so much so that if a man believes his own mind it is certain that he will forsake God and forge some idol in his own brain.

Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.

It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.

The world was no doubt made, that it might be a theatre of the divine glory.

Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.