Attribute to God every good that you have received. If you take credit for something that does not belong to you, you will be guilty of theft.

Damned money! Alas! How many religious did it blind! How many cloistered religious did it deceive! Money is the 'droppings of birds' that blinded the eyes of Tobit.

O name of Mary! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of Her devout clients!

The life of the body is the soul; the life of the soul is God.

Men will surrender to the spirit of the age. They will say that if they had lived in our day, faith would be simple and easy. But in their day, they will say, things are complex; the Church must be brought up to date and made meaningful to the day's problems.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

Anyone, then, who desires to live chastely in Christ Jesus, must flee not only the mouse of lust, but even from its very scent.