He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.

Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.

Prayer finds its source in God's holiness and it is at the same time our response to this holiness.

O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray