If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish, though he be king or pope.

The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.

We usually know what we can do, but temptation shows us who we are.

If you would endeavor, like men of courage, to stand in the battle, surely we would feel the favorable assistance of God from heaven. For he who give the us occasion to fight, to the end we may get the victory, is ready to succor those that fight manfully, and do trust in his grace.

When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.