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

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

If it seems more horrible to kill a man in his own house, then in a field,...it ought surely to be deemed more atrocious to destroy a fetus in the womb before it has come to light.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

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