Quid est ergo tempus? Si nemo ex me quaerat, scio; si quaerenti explicare velim, nescio. What, then, is time? I know well enough what it is, provided that nobodyasksme; but if Iamasked what it is and try to explain, I am baffled.
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility.
Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.
He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.
Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.
The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone.
Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.
The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.
Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.
Heretics think false things about God and call it their faith.
He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.
The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic.
The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.
I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.
One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.