In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.
No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.
I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!
The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God’s word.
Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary.
Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
Tolle, lege: take up and read.
He loves Thee too little, who loves anything together with Thee, which he loves not for Thy sake.
A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.
Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin.
For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them.
God bids you not to commit lechery, that is, not to have sex with any woman except your wife. You ask of her that she should not have sex with anyone except you – yet you are not willing to observe the same restraint in return.
None save great men have been the authors of great heresies.
He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth.
Where I found truth, there found I my God, who is the truth itself.
Doubt is but another element of faith.
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.
God’s faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.
It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer.