As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason.
God answered the prayers of animals.
Art is right reason in the doing of work.
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.
He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul’s health in heaven.
As the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods.
There must be a first mover existing above all – and this we call God.
The fact that the evil ones, as long as they live, can be corrected from their errors does not prohibit that they may be justly executed, for the danger which threatens from their way of life is greater and more certain than the good which may be expected from their improvement.
He who does not embrace the teaching of the Church does not have the habit of faith.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
Being born he have himself as our Companion, Eating with us he gave himself as Food, Dying He became our Ransom, Reigning he gives himself as our Reward.
Godhead here in hiding, whom I adore Masked by these bare shadows, shape and nothing more, See, Lord, at thy service low lies here a heart Lost, all lost in wonder at the God thou art.
In order for a war to be just, three things are necessary. First, the authority of the sovereign. Secondly, a just cause. Thirdly, a rightful intention.
There would not be a perfect likeness of God in the universe if all things were of one grade of being.
Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.
Concerning perfect blessedness which consists in a vision of God.
The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.