When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.

A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.

In his life Christ is an example showing us how to live in his death he is a sacrifice satisfying our sins in his resurrection a conqueror in his ascension a king in his intercession a high priest.

God creates out of nothing. Therefore, until a man is nothing, God can make nothing out of him.

Make sure to send a lazy man the angel of death.

One learns more of Christ in being married and rearing children than in several lifetimes spent in study in a monastery.

If we Christians would join the Wise Men, we must close our eyes to all that glitters before the world and look rather on the despised and foolish things, help the poor, comfort the despised, and aid the neighbor in his need.