A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

Anything that one imagines of God apart from Christ is only useless thinking and vain idolatry.

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

Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God, to which Satan is a bitter enemy; for it removes from the heart the weight of sorrow, and the fascination of evil thoughts.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?

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.