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.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Man has free choice, or otherwise counsels, exhortations, commands, prohibitions, rewards and punishments would be in vain.
This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.
Love follows knowledge.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.
Baptism is not to be conferred on a man who is unwilling to give up his other sins, so neither should Baptism be given to one who is unwilling to renounce his unbelief. Nevertheless, each of them receives the Sacrament if it is conferred on him, although not unto salvation.
God destines us for an end beyond the grasp of reason.
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.
The only-begotten Son of God, wanting to make us sharers in His divinity, assumed our nature, so that He, made man, might make men gods.
To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty.
It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.
When the devil is called the god of this world, it is not because he made it, but because we serve him with our worldliness.