The dog is the most faithful of animals and would be much esteemed were it not so common. Our Lord God has made His greatest gifts the commonest.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

No great saint lived without errors.

Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith.

Whoever wants to be a Christian should tear the eyes out of his reason.

The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.