Original sin is in us like our beard. We are shaved today and look clean; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live.

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

I know not the way God leads me, but well do I know my Guide.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, "Free-will" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces.

Thoughts are not subject to duty.