It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.
Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.
Musicke doth withdraw our mindes from earthly cogitations, lifteth up our spirits into heaven, maketh them light and celestial.
God measures out affliction to our need.
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.