Adam and Eve derived the fullness of joy and bliss from their contemplation of all the animal creatures.

To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

All our experience with history should teach us, when we look back, how badly human wisdom is betrayed when it relies on itself

When questioned whether the Blessed will not be saddened by seeing their nearest and dearest tortured answers, "Not in the least."

The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God.

When the Scripture speaks, God speaks

Those with prodigious skill in music are better suited for all things.