Not all, nor even a majority, are saved. . . They are indeed many, if regarded by themselves, but they are few in comparison with the far larger number of those who shall be punished with the devil.

There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

If a parricide is more wicked than anyone who commits homicide-because he kills not merely a man but a near relative-without doubt worse still is he who kills himself, because there is none nearer to a man than himself.