When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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.
To read without writing is to sleep.
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.