You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.
Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.
No one has ever been accused for not providing ornaments, but for those who neglect their neighbour a hell awaits with an inextinguishable fire and torment in the company of the demons. Do not, therefore, adorn the church and ignore your afflicted brother, for he is the most precious temple of all.
The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.
God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves.
Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.
We must not mind insulting men, if by respecting them we offend God.
What is dying? Just what it is to put off a garment. For the body is about the soul as a garment; and after laying this aside for a short time by means of death, we shall resume it again with more splendor.
Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.
It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer, a virtuous life.
If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Dost thou wish to receive mercy? Show mercy to thy neighbor.
Of all the afflictions that burden the human race, there is not one, whether spiritual or bodily, that cannot be healed by the Holy Scriptures.
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.
A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends.
Mercy imitates God and disappoints Satan.
From the creation learn to admire thy Lord! And if any of the things thou see exceed thy comprehension, and thou are not able to find the reason thereof, yet for this glorify the Creator, that the wisdom of these works surpass thine understanding.
Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.