The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

In this we see the wondrous virtue of the Lord: that the power dwelling in His body should communicate to perishable things the efficacy to heal, and that the divine activity should issue forth even from the hem of His garment. For God is not perceptible by the senses, to be enclosed within a body. The assumption of a body did not limit the nature of His power; but for our redemption His power took upon it the frailty of our body.

However great a sinner may have been, if he shows himself devout to Mary he will never perish.

The chief service I owe you, O God, is that every thought and word of mine should speak of you.

For there have risen many who have given to the plain words of Holy Writ some arbitrary interpretation of their own, instead of its true and only sense, and this in defiance of the clear meaning of words. Heresy lies in the sense assigned, not in the word written; the guilt is that of the expositor, not of the text.

No matter how sinful one may have been, if he has devotion to Mary, it is impossible that he be lost.

The perfection of learning is to know God in such a way that, though you realize he is knowable, yet you know him as indescribable.