This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

Though defensive violence will always be 'a sad necessity' in the eyes of men of principle, it would be still more unfortunate if wrongdoers should dominate just men.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.