What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Grace alone brings about every good work in us.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

He who labours, prays.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God.