Do you desire security? Here you have it. The Lord says to you, "I will never abandon you, I will always be with you." If a good man made you such a promise, you would trust him. God makes it, and do you doubt? Do you seek a support more sure than the word of God, which is infallible? Surely, He has made the promise, He has written it, He has pledged His word for it, it is most certain.

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

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

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

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.