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

Let your door stand open to receive Him, unlock your soul to Him, offer Him a welcome in your mind, and then you will see the riches of simplicity, the treasures of peace, the joy of grace. Throw wide the gate of your heart, stand before the sun of the everlasting light.

The rich women, to avoid dividing the inheritance among many, kill their own fetus in the womb and with murderous juices extinguish in the genital chamber their children.

There is no time of life past learning something.

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!

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.