For the preservation of chastity, an empty and rumbling stomach and fevered lungs are indispensable.
Time would fail me were I to try to lay before you in order all the passages in the Holy Scriptures which relate to the efficacy of baptism or to explain the mysterious doctrine of that second birth which though it is our second is yet our first in Christ.
An ethic is not an ethic, and a value not a value without somesacrifice for it. Something given up, something not gained.
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
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.