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Obedience is the crown and honour of all virtue.

Let a man be endowed with ten virtues and have but one fault and the one fault will eclipse and darken all the virtues.

World, death, devil, hell, away and leave me in peace! You have no hold on me. If you will not let me live, then I will die. But you won't succeed in that. Chop my head off, and it won't harm me. I have a God who will give me a new one.

It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist.

Christ took our sins and the sins of the whole world as well as the Father's wrath on his shoulders, and he has drowned them both in himself so that we are thereby reconciled to God and become completely righteous.

A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating.

It is impossible to separate works from faith- yea, just as impossible as to separate burning and shining from fire.

For it is a horrible blasphemy to imagine that there is any work by which you should presume to pacify God, since you see that there is nothing which is able to pacify Him but this inestimable price, even the death and the blood of the Son of God, one drop of which is more precious than the whole world.

I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain.

I cannot neglect prayer for a single day.

The two chief things are faith and love. Faith receives the good; love gives the good. Faith offers us God as our own; love gives us to our neighbor as his own.

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

I did nothing. The Word did it all.

I often laugh at Satan, and there is nothing that makes him so angry as when I attack him to his face, and tell him that through God I am more than a match for him

I am so busy now that if I did not spend three hours each day in prayer, I could not get through the day.

If you preach the gospel in all aspects with the exception of the issues which deal specifically with your time, you are not preaching the gospel at all.

A happy fart never comes from a miserable ass.

Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace.

What do we older folks live for if not for the care of the young, to teach and train them?

Faith is a free surrenderand a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough ... Moreover, our greatest task is to keep you faithful to this article and to bequeath this treasure to you when we die.