The cross of Christ only triumphs in the breast of believers over the devil and the flesh, sin and sinners, when their eyes are directed to the power of His Resurrection.

Humility is the beginning of true intelligence.

Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.

The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.

To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.

All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.

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.