A man's readiness and commitment are not enough if he does not enjoy help from above as well; equally help from above is no benefit to us unless there is also commitment and readiness on our part.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

Wine was given us by God, not that we might be drunken, but that we might be sober. It is the best medicine when it has the best moderation to direct it. Wine was given to restore the body's weakness, not to overturn the soul's strength.

Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.

The Holy Scriptures lead us to God and open the path to the knowledge of God.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts