Humility is first, second and third in Christianity.
It is He who gave to this intellectual nature free-will of such a kind, that if he wishes to forsake God his blessedness, misery should forthwith result.
Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.
Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?
They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.
The reward of patience Is patience.
If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.
God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.
Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom.
Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.
No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.
Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.
Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.
God’s love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!
You are what you love.
Our rewards in heaven are a result of God’s crowning His own gifts.
Except he be willing, man cannot believe.
Mary heard God’s word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God’s truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb.
I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.
Beware of bad Catholics.