It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.

You must make up your mind to the prospect of sustaining a certain measure of pain and trouble in you'r passage through life.