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

Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.

Let us not cease to do the utmost, that we may incessantly go forward in the way of the Lord; and let us not despair of the smallness of our accomplishments.

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

Faith consists, not in ignorance, but in knowledge, and that, not only of God, but also of the divine will.

All whom the Lord has chosen and received into the society of his saints ought to prepare themselves for a life that is hard, difficult, laborious and full of countless griefs.

Without the Gospel everything is useless and vain.