For it was not after we were reconciled to him by the blood of his Son that he began to love us, but he loved us before the foundation of the world, that with his only begotten Son we too might be sons of God before we were anything at all.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

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

Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

If God contains the fullness of all good things in Himself like an inexhaustible fountain, nothing beyond Him is to be sought by those who strike after the highest good and all the elements of happiness.

Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.

Scripture is like a pair of spectacles which dispels the darkness and gives us a clear view of God.