Passion costs me too much to bestow it on every trifle.

That which a man spits against heaven, shall fall back on his own face.

Ever tell me of a humble heart where I see a stubborn knee.

Grace comes into the soul as the morning sun into the world: there is first a dawning, then a mean light, and at last the sun in his excellent brightness.

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

Paradise had four rivers that watered the earth.... and howsoever neglected by many, they make glad the city of God. So Bernard sweetly: Eternal life is granted to us in election, promised in our vocation, sealed in our justification, possessed in our glorification. Conclude then, faithfully to thy own soul. I believe, therefore I am justified; I am justified, therefore I am sanctified; I am sanctified, therefore I am called; I am called, therefore I am elected; I am elected, therefore I shall be saved. Oh! settled comfort of joy, which ten thousand devils shall never make void.

Satan like a fisher, baits his hook according to the appetite of the fish.