Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

Prayer ought to be short and pure, unless it be prolonged by the inspiration of Divine grace.

Whenever you begin any good work you should first of all make a most pressing appeal to Christ our Lord to bring it to perfection.

There is nothing better to display the truth in an excellent light, than a clear and simple statement of facts.

Girded with faith and the performance of good works, let us follow in his [Jesus] paths by the guidance of the Gospel.

To attribute to God, and not to self, whatever good one sees in oneself; but to recognize always that the evil is one's own doing, and to impute it on one's self.

The prophet shows that, for the sake of silence, we are to abstain even from good talk. If this be so, how much more needful is it that we refrain from evil words, on account of the penalty of the sin!