Finding God in All Things.

Just as the commander of an army pitches his camp, studies the strength and defenses of a fortress, and then attacks it on its weakest side, in like manner, the enemy of our human nature studies from all sides our theological, cardinal, and moral virtues. Wherever he finds us weakest and most in need regarding our eternal salvation, he attacks and tries to take us by storm.

Idleness is hells fishhook for catching souls.

Let me look at the foulness and ugliness of my body. Let me see myself as an ulcerous sore running with every horrible and disgusting poison.

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

... 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.

What seems to me white, I will believe black if the hierarchical Church so defines.