For what is idolatry if not this: to worship the gifts in place of the Giver himself?

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

It is amazing how much our lack of trust provokes God if we request of him a boon that we do not expect

Prayers belong strictly to the worship of God. Fasting is a subordinate aid, which is pleasing to God no farther than as it aids the earnestness and fervency of prayer.

Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.

The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life. It cannot be grasped by reason and memory only, but it is fully understood when it possesses the whole soul and penetrates to the inner recesses of the heart.