The world's verdict is conclusive.

Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

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

The Law is not in fault, but our evil and wicked nature; even as a heap of lime is still and quiet until water is poured on it, but then it begins to smoke and burn, not from the fault of the water, but from the nature of the lime, which will not endure it.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.