Whoever the Lord has adopted ought to prepare themselves for hard, toilsome and unquiet living.

Our true and genuine wisdom can be summed up as the knowledge of God and the knowledge of ourselves.

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

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

There are sons of God who do not yet appear so to us, but now do so to God; and there are those who, on account of some arrogated or temporal grace, are called so by us, but are not so to God.

All the blessings we enjoy are Divine deposits, committed to our trust on this condition, that they should be dispensed for the benefit of our neighbors.

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God Our wisdom, in so far as it ought to be deemed true and solid Wisdom, consists almost entirely of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves. But as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.