Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.
But man is freer than all the animals, on account of his free-will, with which he is endowed above all other animals.
Don’t ask who said it? Ask what they said.
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
The Bread of angels has become the Bread of mankind; This heavenly Bread puts an end to all images; O wonderful reality! The poor, the slave, and the humble can eat the Lord.
The soul is known by its acts.
Now, nothing can be brought from potentiality to actual existence except through something actually existing.
When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.
Here ’neath veils, my Saviour darkly I behold; To my thirsting spirit all thy light unfold; Face to face in heaven let me come to thee, And the blessed vision of thy glory see.
Jesus Lord, kind Pelican, Cleanse my filth with Thy blood, One drop of which can save The whole world from all its sin.
The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
Baptism is the door of the spiritual life and the gateway to the sacraments.
For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is.
Man is closer to God according to his existence in grace than he is according to his existence in nature.
Sing, my tongue, the Saviour’s glory, Of His Flesh, the mystery sing; Of the Blood, all price exceeding, Shed by our Immortal King, Destined, for the world’s redemption, From a noble Womb to spring.
There is, therefore, a more perfect intellectual life in the angels. In them the intellect does not proceed to self-knowledge from anything exterior, but knows itself through itself...
God has need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.
To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.