Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.

The whole Turkish empire is nothing else but a crust cast by Heaven's great Housekeeper to His dogs.

But the Jews are so hardened that they listen to nothing; though overcome by testimonies they yield not an inch. It is a pernicious race, oppressing all men by their usury and rapine. If they give a prince or magistrate a thousand florins, they extort twenty thousand from the subjects in payment. We must ever keep on guard against them.

God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing.

Our God is the God from whom cometh salvation: God is the Lord by who escape death.

Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel.

Against the flying ball no valor avails.