Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

What are kingdoms without justice? They're just gangs of bandits.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

What can be more excellent than prayer; what is more profitable to our life; what sweeter to our souls; what more sublime, in the course of our whole life, than the practice of prayer!

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.