The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

For it is better, with closed eyes, to follow God as our guide, than, by relying on our own prudence, to wander through those circuitous paths which it devises for us.

The Scriptures should be read with the aim of finding Christ in them. Whoever turns aside from this object, even though he wears himself out all his life in learning, he will never reach the knowledge of the truth.

The surest source of destruction to men is to obey themselves.

If God were not to test us, there would be no patience.

We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.