The devil does not tempt unbelievers and sinners who are already his own.

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.

Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing more courageous, nothing higher, nothing wider, nothing more pleasant, nothing fuller nor better in heaven and earth; because love is born of God, and cannot rest but in God, above all created things.

If you can win complete mastery over self, you will easily master all else. To triumph over self is the perfect victory.

Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation it be, bringeth forth good fruit.

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.

One who views thing as they are in reality, and not as they are said or thought to be, is truly wise, taught by God rather than by other persons