Where God's Spirit does not reign, there is no humility, and men ever swell with inward pride.

Again I ask whence it happened that the fall of Adam involved, without remedy, in eternal death so many nations, together with their infant children, except because it so seemed good to God? A decree horrible, I confess, and yet true.

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

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

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.

The blood of Christ is necessary to purge the faults clinging to our best works.

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.