What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.
Love God and do whatever you please: for the soul trained in love to God will do nothing to offend the One who is Beloved.
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared.
He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.
I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
Let those who think I have said too little and those who think I have said too much, forgive me; and let those who think I have said just enough thank God with me.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call ‘Christian’ the true religion which existed before.
In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.
God in his omnipotence could not give more, in His wisdom He knew not how to give more, in His riches He had not more to give, than the Eucharist.
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.
Free curiosity is of more value than harsh discipline.
To seek the highest good is to live well.
Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.