Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted.

Nothing in the world causes so much misery as uncertainty.

God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing

The less I pray, the harder it gets; the more I pray, the better it goes.

I [i.e., God] have given you baptism as a gift for the forgiveness of sins, and preach to you unceasingly by word of mouth concerning this treasure, sealing it with the Sacrament of my body and blood, so that you need never doubt. True, it seems little and insignificant that by the washing of water, the Word, and the Sacrament this should all be effected. But don't let your eyes deceive you.

The heart of religion lies in its personal pronouns.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.