It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life.

None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience.

Human nature is like a drunk peasant. Lift him into the saddle on one side, over he topples on the other side.

We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

Your thoughts of God are too human

Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.