For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.
Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.
Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.
Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.
I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels.
This is plainly to ascribe divinity to 'free will.'