Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

Great are those two gifts, wisdom and continence: wisdom, forsooth, whereby we are formed in the knowledge of God; continence whereby we are not conformed to this world.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Singing is a lover's thing.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.