Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.

Sin is Energy in the wrong channel.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.