Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.
Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.
A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.
That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
For all riches come from iniquity, and unless one were to lose another could not gain. Hence the common adage seems to me to be very true: The rich man is unjust or the heir of an unjust one.
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way.
Love knows nothing of order.
Why do you not practice what you preach.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
My speech is too fast; my oration confused; love knows no order.
It is not being in Jerusalem, but living a good life there that is praiseworthy.
Quick enough, if good enough.
It is hard for the human soul not to love something, and our mind must of necessity be drawn to some kind of affection.
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace – the thousand pictures.