He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.
Nothing whatever pertaining to godliness and real holiness can be accomplished without grace .
I was in love with loving.
Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?
Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.
The Holy Scriptures are our letters from home.
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.
Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.
We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
There are wolves within, and there are sheep without.
To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity. Enter again into yourself.
It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil.
Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.
Where your pleasure is, there is your treasure: where your treasure, there your heart; where your heart, there your happiness.
Chastity, or cleanness of heart, holds a glorious and distinguished place among the virtues, because she, alone, enables man to see God; hence Truth itself said, ‘Blessed are the clean of heart, for they shall see God.’
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.