Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

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

Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.

Mingled vanity and pride appear in this, that when miserable men do seek after God, instead of ascending higher than themselves as they ought to do, they measure him by their own carnal stupidity, and neglecting solid inquiry, fly off to indulge their curiosity in vain speculation.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.

Unless we endeavor to do good to our neighbor, through our cruelty we transgress this law