The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.

When the Bible speaks, God speaks.

Whensoever God's truth is defaced or when any man turns away from the pure simplicity of the Gospel, we must not in any wise spare him, but although the whole world should set itself against us, yet must we maintain the case with invincible constancy, without bending for any creature.

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

Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.