I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. I do not seek to understand that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that unless I believe, I shall not understand.

God hath promised pardon to him that repenteth, but he hath not promised repentance to him that sinneth.

A single Mass offered for oneself during life may be worth more than a thousand celebrated for the same intention after death.

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

Remove grace, and you have nothing whereby to be saved. Remove free will and you have nothing that could be saved.

Spare me through your mercy, do not punish me through your justice.

Lust desireth not procreation, but pleasure only.