Before every great opportunity God gave me a great trial.

A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular.

God has set the type of marriage through creation. Each creature seeks its perfection in another.

It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!

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.

Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful ought to pursue the evil to its source, and bathe their heads in the blood of the Catholic bishops, and of the Pope, who is the devil in disguise.

The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God.