For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who disbelieve, no amount of proof is sufficient.

... 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.

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

It is one thing to be eloquent and charming in profane speech, and another when the one speaking as a religious.

It is not the finest wood that feeds the fire of Divine love, but the wood of the Cross.

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.

He who has heard the Word of God can bear his silences.