The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.

To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.

They please the world most, who please Christ least.

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.

The Roman world is in collapse but we do not bend our neck.