To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.

It's really not a difficult decision when you reflect on it, ... The situation is just so tenuous with where it's going to hit. You don't want to take any chances.

I shall drink to the Pope, if you please, still, to conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.

Go down again - I dwell among the people.

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.