May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary.
A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.
If every time the blood is poured out it is poured out for the remission of sins, I ought to receive it always, that my sins may always be forgiven me.
It is Peter himself that He says, ‘You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.’ Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.
If you are at Rome live in the Roman style; if you are elsewhere live as they live elsewhere.
When I am at Rome I fast as the Romans do; when I am at Milan I do not fast. So likewise you, whatever church you come to, observe the custom of the place, if you would neither give offence to others, nor take offence from them.
Love is like a shadow, one can only catch it by falling into it.
The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.
Dice have their laws, which the courts of justice cannot undo.
Prelate, n. A church officer having a superior degree of holiness and a fat preferment. One of Heaven’s aristocracy. A gentleman of God.
To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?
It was not by dialectic that it pleased God to save His people.
The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.
The prime objective of all Initiatory music in the Temples of Antiquity was to bring about physical purification and renewal, mental stimulation and alertness, spiritual exhilaration and Illumination.
As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.
There is no time of life past learning something.
But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.
It is easier to look wise than to talk wisely.
The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.
Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.