The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

One of the greatest artifices the devil uses to engage men in vice and debauchery, is to fasten names of contempt on certain virtues, and thus fill weak souls with a foolish fear of passing for scrupulous, should they desire to put them in practice.

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

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.

The mind naturally makes progress, and the will naturally clings to objects; so that for want of right objects, it will attach itself to wrong ones.

Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!