It is a sign of a perverse and treacherous disposition to wound the good name of another, when he has no opportunity of defending himself.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.

Since we are all naturally prone to hypocrisy, any empty semblance of righteousness is quite enough to satisfy us instead of righteousness itself.

My heart I give you, Lord, eagerly and entirely.

It is a promise which eminently deserves our observation that all who are united to Christ and acknowledge Him to be Christ and Mediator will remain to the end safe from all danger, for what is said of the body of the Church belongs to each of its members since they are one in Christ.

Rejoicing refers to moderation of spirit when the mind keeps itself in calmness under adversity and does not give indulgence to grief. Constant praying is the way of 'rejoicing perpetually', for by this means we ask from God alleviation in connection with all our distresses.