We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons.

There is on earth among all dangers, no more dangerous thing than a richly endowed and adroid reason, especially if she enters into spiritual matters which concern the soul and God. For it is more possible to teach an ass to read than to blind such a reason and lead it right; for reason must be deluded, blinded, and destroyed.

I had rather be in hell with Christ, than be in heaven without him.

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's love gives in such a way that it flows from a Father's heart, the well-spring of all good. The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious; as among ourselves we say of even a trifling gift, "It comes from a hand we love," and look not so much at the gift as at the heart.

Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity

Christ designed that the day of his coming should be hid from us, that being in suspense, we might be as it were upon the watch.