Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

The Creation is quite like a spacious and splendid house, provided and filled with the most exquisite, and at the same time, the most abundant furnishings. Everything in it tells of God.

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.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

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

The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

The fire of affliction reveals the quality of our faith