God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless.
For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.
There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.
People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.
Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?
The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don’t.
You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.
I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.
By and by never comes.
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.
Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.
When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other’s flame.
Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.
It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.
The argument is at an end.
By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should I not be prey to myself?
O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.