For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?
Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
We come to God by love and not by navigation.
All the dancer’s gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.
He who loves the coming of the Lord is not he who affirms that it is far off, nor is it he who says it is near, but rather he who, whether it be far off or near, awaits it with sincere faith, steadfast hope, and fervent love.
God is best known in not knowing him.
I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one friend.
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Attract them by the way you live.
God gives where he finds empty hands.
We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.
When I seek you, my God, I seek a blessed life. I shall seek you, so that my soul may live.