You parents can provide no better gift for your children than an education in the liberal arts. House and home burn down, but an education is easy to carry along.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

They [rulers] must act like a good physician who, when gangrene has set in proceeds without mercy to cut, saw, and burn flesh, veins, bone, and marrow. Such a procedure must also be followed in this instance. Burn down their synagogues, forbid all that I enumerated earlier, force them to work, and deal harshly with them, as Moses did... If this does not help we must drive them out like mad dogs.

But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

God works by contraries so that a man feels himself to be lost in the very moment when he is on the point of being saved.

It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators.

This is the mystery of the riches of divine grace for sinners; for by a wonderful exchange our sins are now not ours but Christ's, and Christ's righteousness is not Christ's but ours.