Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind.

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.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation.

If I could today become king or emperor, I would not give up my office as preacher.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.