Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.

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

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

Thus the woman, who had perversely exceeded her proper bounds, is forced back to her own position. She had, indeed, previously been subject to her husband, but that was a liberal and gentle subjection; now, however, she is cast into servitude.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.

We shall never be fit for the service of God, if we look not beyond this fleeting life.