God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

If anyone asks you for something that you believe would be injurious to him, refuse, but in such a manner as not to lose his good-will.

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

Sin is unwillingness to trust that what God wants for me is only my deepest happiness.

If you attach your heart to certain places and occupations, obedience oftentimes places you in some other place that you may not like; to be always cheerful, be always humble and obedient.

But some most worthless persons are in the habit of carrying about the name of Jesus Christ in wicked guile, while yet they practice things unworthy of God, and hold opinions contrary to the doctrine of Christ, to their own destruction, and that of those who give credit to them, whom you must avoid as ye would wild beasts.

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