We must keep our thought secret, and judge everything by it, while talking like the people.

Man is so made that by continually telling him he is a fool he believes it, and by continually telling it to himself he makes himself believe it. For man holds an inward talk with himself, which it pays him to regulate.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Concupiscence and force are the source of all our actions; concupiscence causes voluntary actions, force involuntary ones.

I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?