It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.
For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.
What do I love when I love my God?
I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: ‘This is My Body.’ No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.
It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.
In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word.
Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Tolle, lege: take up and read.
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you – yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.