Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer.

In our sad condition our only consolation is the expectancy of another life. Here below all is incomprehensible.

The Devil can so completely assume the human form, when he wants to deceive us, that we may well lie with what seems to be a woman, of real flesh and blood, and yet all the while 'tis only the Devil in the shape of a woman. 'Tis the same with women, who may think that a man is in bed with them, yet 'tis only the Devil; and...the result of this connection is oftentimes an imp of darkness, half mortal, half devil.

what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.

There is on earth among all dangers no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroit reason...Reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads.

Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God.