Cursed is everyone who places his hope in changing the nature of man.
The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.
All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons; chiefly do they torment freshly-baptized Christians, yea, even the guiltless new-born infants.
A marriage without children is the world without the sun.
The world’s verdict is conclusive.
If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.
Thus the good christian should beware of mathematicians and all those who make false prophecies, however much they may in fact speak the truth; lest, being in league with the devil, they may deceive errant souls into making common cause.
God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.
He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.
Fill yourselves first and then only will you be able to give to others.
He who labours, prays.
Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time.
Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.
The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it minds not. What is this monstrous thing? And why is it?
We can know what God is not, but we cannot know what He is.
If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman’s hell.
It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.
Even in waging war, cherish the spirit of peace-maker; that, by conquering those whom you attack, you may lead them back to the advantages of peace.
The wicked have told me of things that delight them, but not such things as your law has to tell.