Our loving God wills that we eat, drink and be merry.

God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful.

There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books.

Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money.

There is no rustic so rude but that, if he dreams or fancies anything, it must be the whisper of the Holy Ghost, and he himself a prophet.

Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.