In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

What are the things we should pray for? First, our personal troubles...The greatest trouble we can ever know is thinking that we have no trouble for we can become hard-hearted and insensible to what is inside of us.

Christ is the Master; the Scriptures are only the servant. The true way to test all the Books is to see whether they work the will of Christ or not. No Book which does not preach Christ can be apostolic, though Peter or Paul were its author. And no Book which does preach Christ can fail to be apostolic, although Judas, Ananias, Pilate, or Herod were its author.

We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands.

Marriage is a civic matter. It is really not, together with all its circumstances, the business of the church.

Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.