We must put aside all judgment of our own, and keep the mind ever ready and prompt to obey in all things the true Spouse of Christ our Lord, our holy Mother, the hierarchical Church.

He who goes about to reform the world must begin with himself, or he loses his labor.

... 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.

The servant of God earns half a doctorate through illness

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

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

All the things in this world are gifts of God, created for us, to be the means by which we can come to know him better, love him more surely, and serve him more faithfully.