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.
The greatest evil is physical pain.
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
Nothing, therefore, happens unless the Omnipotent wills it to happen. He either permits it to happen, or He brings it about Himself.
Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.
Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.
Two loves have made two different cities: self-love hath made a terrestrial city, which rises in contempt of God; and Divine Love hath made a celestial one, which rises in contempt of self. The former glories in itself – the latter in God.
The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.
The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.
If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don’t accept, because you will...
For so it is, O Lord my God, I measure it! But what it is I measure, I do not know.
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
To sing is to pray twice.