Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
The greatest kindness one can render to any man consists in leading him from error to truth.
Eternity is called whole, not because it has parts, but because it is lacking in nothing.
The Eucharist is the sacrament of love; it signifies love, it produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.
Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.
Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
To the Everlasting Father, And the Son who made us free And the Spirit, God proceeding From them Each eternally, Be salvation, honour, blessing, Might and endless majesty.
What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.
Faith is God’s work within us.
It is not theft, properly speaking, to take secretly and use another’s property in a case of extreme need: because that which he takes for the support of his life becomes his own property by reason of that need.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet.
He who is not angry when there is just cause for anger is immoral. Why? Because anger looks to the good of justice. And if you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.