Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
Be at peace with your own soul, then heaven and earth will be at peace with you.
Ignorance of the Scriptures is ignorance of Christ.
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.
A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.
The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
There are things in life that are bigger than ourselves. Life is short, live it well.
Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.
The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men’s only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.