Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!

It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better.

The devil flees before the sound of music almost as much as before the Word of God.

A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing.

A man cannot do good before he is made good.

But know that to serve God is nothing else than to serve your neighbor and do good to him in love, be it a child, wife, servant, enemy, friend....If you do not find yourself among the needy and the poor, where the Gospel shows us Christ, then you may know that your faith is not right, and that you have not yet tasted of Christ's benevolence and work for you.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.