What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

God helps those who work, not those who are idle. No one helps an inactive person, but one who joins in the labor. The good God himself will bring...work to perfection.

When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

You carry your snare everywhere and spread your nets in all places. You allege that you never invited others to sin. You did not indeed, by your words, but you have done so by your dress and your deportment.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.