There are some of us who think to ourselves, 'If I had only been there! How quick I would have been to help the Baby. I would have washed His linen. How happy I would have been to go with the shepherds to see the Lord lying in the manger!' Why don't we do it now? We have Christ in our neighbor.

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

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness.

The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all.

This is the reason why our Theology is certain: because it seizes us from ourselves and places us outside ourselves.

Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word.