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.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.

It is certain that not one drop of rain falls without God's sure command.

The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

For, since the fall of Adam had brought disgrace upon all his posterity, God restores those, whom He separates as His own, so that their condition may be better than that of all other nations. At the same time it must be remarked, that this grace of renewal is effaced in many who have afterwards profaned it

The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.