All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

Truth always ends by victory; it is not unassailable, but invincible.

If our church is not marked by caring for the poor, the oppressed, the hungry, we are guilty of heresy.

In the case of those who are making progress from good to better, the good angel touches the soul gently, lightly, sweetly, as a drop of water enters a sponge, while the evil spirit touches it sharply, with noise and disturbance, like a drop of water falling on a rock.

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.