And indeed we believe you [God] to be something than which a greater cannot be conceived.

God does not delay to hear our prayers because He has no mind to give; but that, by enlarging our desires, He may give us the more largely.

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

There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.

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.

It is, therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.

Disasters teach us humility.