There cannot be a surer rule, nor a stronger exhortation to the observance of it, than when we are taught that all the endowments which we possess are divine deposits entrusted to us for the very purpose of being distributed for the good of our neighbour.

The Bible is the sceptre by which the Heavenly King rules His Church.

Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.

Unless men establish their complete happiness in God, they will never give themselves truly and sincerely to him.

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.

In knowing God, each of us also knows himself.

God is undoubtedly ready to pardon whenever the sinner turns. Therefore, he does not will his death, in so far as he wills repentance. But experience shows that this will, for the repentance of those whom he invites to himself, is not such as to make him touch all their hearts. Still, it cannot be said that he acts deceitfully; for though the external word only renders, those who hear it, and do not obey it, inexcusable, it is still truly regarded as an evidence of the grace by which he reconciles men to himself.