Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.

To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

It is Peter himself that He says, 'You are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my Church.' Where Peter is, there is the Church. And where the Church, no death is there, but life eternal.

We must follow the ways of the Lord, and take heed to our own ways, lest they lead us into sin. One can take heed if one is not hasty in speaking. The law says: 'Hear, O Israel, the Lord your God' (Dt. 6:4). It said not: 'Speak,' but 'Hear.' Eve fell because she said to the man what she had not heard from the Lord her God. The first word from God says to you: Hear!

Prayer is the wing wherewith the soul flies to heaven, and meditation the eye wherewith we see God.