what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits.
The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.
Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.
Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people.
One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!
As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.