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.

... 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.

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

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

May the perfect grace and eternal love of Christ our Lord be our never-failing protection and help.

The glory of God is humankind fully alive.

The safest and most suitable form of penance seems to be that which causes pain in the flesh but does not penetrate to the bones, that is, which causes suffering but not sickness.