Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
If it is good not to touch a woman, then it is bad to touch a woman always and in every case.
Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.
To saints their very slumber is a prayer.
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.
Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one’s faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one’s life.
Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
If there is but little water in the stream, it is the fault, not of the channel, but of the source.
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.
Keep always busy so that the devil will find you always engaged.