Faith alone saves, but the faith that saves is not alone.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

True wisdom consists in two things: Knowledge of God and Knowledge of Self.

Without Christ, sciences in every department are vain....The man who knows not God is vain, though he should be conversant with every branch of learning. Nay more, we may affirm this too with truth, that these choice gifts of God -- expertness of mind, acuteness of judgment, liberal sciences, and acquaintance with languages, are in a manner profaned in every instance in which they fall to the lot of wicked men.

It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor.

Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.

Wherever we find the Word of God surely preached and heard, and the sacraments administered according to the institution of Christ, there, it is not to be doubted, is a church of God.