The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

The highest honor in the church is not government but service.

So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.