To pretend angels do not exist because they are invisible is to believe we never sleep because we don’t see ourselves sleeping.
If you can live amid injustice without anger, you are immoral as well as unjust.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
To love is to will the good of the other.
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
The celebration of Holy Mass is as valuable as the death of Jesus on the cross.
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.
Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
There is within every soul a thirst for happiness and meaning.
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.
Happiness is secured through virtue; it is a good attained by man’s own will.
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
All my words are but chaff next to the faith of a simple man.
The minister to whom confession is made is the delegate of Christ, Who is the Judge of the living and the dead.
For in order that man may do well, whether in the works of the active life, or in those of the contemplative life, he needs the fellowship of friends.
The Blessed Eucharist is the perfect Sacrament of the Lord’s Passion, since It contains Christ Himself and his Passion.