And truly, O man, if you concentrate hard on the state you are in it will be surprising if you have time for anything else.

Who loves me will love my dog also.

Let your prayer for temporal blessings be strictly limited to things absolutely necessary.

Pride only, the chief of all iniquities, can make us treat gifts as if they were rightful attributes of our nature, and, while receiving benefits, rob our Benefactor of His due glory.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

Prayer is a virtue that prevaileth against all temptations.