It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

A marriage without children is the world without the sun.

It’s not in the book or in the writer that readers discern the truth of what they read; they see it in themselves, if the light of truth has penetrated their minds.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.