That there should be some fire even after this life is not incredible, and it can be inquired into and either be discovered or left hidden whether some of the faithful may be saved, some more slowly and some more quickly in the greater or lesser degree in which they loved the good things that perish, through a certain purgatorial fire.

Tolle, lege: take up and read.

Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

For in our hope we are saved.

Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?

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.