If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

Indifferent acts are judged by their ends sins are judged by themselves.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.