There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

I exhort all, who reverence the Word of the Lord, to read it, and diligently imprint it on their memory.

To be pure in heart is to take no delight in cunning, but converse sincerely with men, and express nothing, by word or look, which is not felt in the heart.

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Many people have accused me of such ferocious cruelty that (they allege) I would like to kill again the man I have destroyed. Not only am I indifferent to their comments, but I rejoice in the fact that they spit in my face.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.