The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

The Bible is a stream of running water, where alike the elephant may swim, and the lamb walk without losing its feet.

Ignorance is a dangerous and spiritual poison, which all men ought warily to shun.

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

The pastor should always be pure in thought ... no impurity ought to pollute him who has undertaken the office of wiping away the stains in the hearts of others ... for the hand that would cleanse from dirt must be clean, lest, being itself sordid with clinging mire, it soil whatever it touches all the more.

You cannot acquire the gift of peace if by your anger you destroy the peace of the Lord.

We must observe also, that among the heathen the names of poor men are more likely to be known than of rich. Now our Lord mentions the name of the poor, but not the name of the rich, because God knows and approves the humble, but not the proud.