The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

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.

... we ought even to hold as a fixed principle that what I see white I believe to be black, if the superior authorities define it to be so.

Stand firm and immovable as an anvil when it is beaten upon.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.