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Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.
To make intercession for men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
We are nowhere forbidden to laugh, or be satisfied with food...or to be delighted with music or to drink wine.
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
Nobody seriously believes the universe was made by God without being persuaded that He takes care of His works.
We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.
Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.
There are people who are known to be very liberal, yet they never give without scolding or pride or even insolence.
I don't need to compromise my principles, because they don't have the slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway.
We should never insult others on account of their faults, for it is our duty to show charity and respect to everyone.
When we hear any mention of our mystical union with Christ, we should remember that holiness is the channel to do it.
Satan, who is a wonderful contriver of delusions, is constantly laying snares to entrap ignorant and heedless people.
However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.
The principle exercise which the children of god have is to pray. For in this way they give true proof of their faith.
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
In forming an estimate of sins, we are often imposed upon by imagining that the more hidden the less heinous they are.
It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.
Our true wisdom is to embrace with meek docility, and without reservation, whatever the holy scriptures have delivered.
Joy and thanksgiving expressed in prayer and praise according to the Word of God are the heart of the Church's worship.
To 'justify' means nothing else than to acquit of guilt him (her) who was accused as if his own innocence were confirmed.
But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.
The answer of our prayers is secured by the fact that in rejecting them God would in a certain sense deny His own nature.
God does not bestow his spirit on his people in order to set aside the use of his word, but rather to render it fruitful.
The more closely we see ourselves being watched by our enemies, the more time intent we should be to avoid their slanders.
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.
Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.
There is no wisdom but that which is founded on the fear of God, which Solomon also declares to be the chief part of wisdom.
Concerning our Lord Jesus Christ, we must also be aware that he is our Advocate, and that without him we cannot approach God.
Creatures are so governed by the secret counsel of God, that nothing happens but what he has knowingly and willingly decreed.
Life is not found in commandments or declarations of penalties, but in the promise of mercy and only in a gratuitous promise.
The very word baptizé, however, signifies to immerse; and it is certain that immersion was the practice of the ancient Church.
Indeed, a Christian ought to be disposed and prepared to keep in mind that he has to reckon with God every moment of his life.
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
A dog barks when his master is attacked. I would be a coward if I saw that God's truth is attacked and yet would remain silent.
I have never seen either a drop of piety or a grain of truth or ingenuousness - nay, I have never found common sense in any Jew.
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it.
We shall never be clothed with the righteousness of Christ except we first know assuredly that we have no righteousness of our own.
Unless God's Word illumine the way, the whole life of men is wrapped in darkness and mist, so that they cannot but miserably stray.
Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.
It is not lawful for you to make a compromise with God: to try to fulfill part of your duties and to omit others at your own pleasure.
If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.
Nearly all the wisdom we possess, that is to say, true and sound wisdom, consists of two parts: the knowledge of God and of ourselves.
We must always speak of the efficacy of the ministry in such a manner that the entire praise of the work may be reserved for God alone.
Because the will renewed is the Lord's work, it is wrongly attributed to man that he obeys prevenient grace with his will as attendant.
But those who wish to prove to unbelievers that Scripture is the Word of God are acting foolishly, for only by faith can this be known.
Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.