Let us take refuge from this world. You can do this in spirit, even if you are kept here in the body. You can at the same time be here and present to the Lord. Your soul must hold fast to him, you must follow after him in your thoughts, you must tread his ways by faith, not in outward show.

For how can we adopt those things which we do not find in the holy Scriptures?

The emperor is in the Church, not about the Church.

Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God. No one is excepted, not [even] the infant.

May each one of us glorify the Lord with the soul of Mary and rejoice in God with the spirit of Mary

Our own evil inclinations are far more dangerous than any external enemies.

Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.