I have not so great a struggle with my vices, great and numerous as they are, as I have with my impatience. My efforts are not absolutely useless; yet I have never been able to conquer this ferocious wild beast.

The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

The Holy Spirit is the bond by which Christ efficaciously unites us to himself.

We are not to reflect on the wickedness of men but to look to the image of God in them, an image which, covering and obliterating their faults, an image which, by its beauty and dignity, should allure us to love and embrace them.

God orders what we cannot do, that we may know what we ought to ask him.

Seeing God hath thus set us at liberty, what rashness it is for worms of the earth to make new laws; as though God had not been wise enough.