Make friends with angels.
We enjoy some gratification when our good friends die; for though their death leaves us in sorrow, we have the consolatory assurance that they are beyond the ills by which in this life even the best of people are broken down or corrupted.
I err therefore I am.
The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.
The Kingdom of Heaven, O man, requires no other price than yourself. The value of it is yourself. Give yourself for it and you shall have it.
There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.
A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth’s eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.
There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.
Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.
We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.
To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.
Love, and He will draw near; love, and He will dwell within you.
This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.
Ignorance itself is without a doubt a sin for those who do not wish to understand; for those who, however, cannot understand, it is the punishment of sin.
God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.
What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.
The customs of God’s people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.
The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.
Do not follow any road, but that which Christ trod. This road seems hard, but it is safe.