Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
I have read in Plato and Cicero sayings that are wise and very beautiful; but I have never read in either of them: Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden.
Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.
He that is jealous is not in love.
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
He who labours, prays.
We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.
Punishment is justice for the unjust.
It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.