While we contemplate in all creatures, as in a mirror, those immense riches of His wisdom, justice, goodness and power, we should not meerly run them over cursorily, and, so to speak, with a fleeting glance, but we should ponder them at length, turn them over in our mind seriously and faithfully and recollect them repeatedly.

Take away the Mass, destroy the Church.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

For from the error of not knowing, or understanding, what sin is, there necessarily arises another error, that people cannot know or understand what grace is.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

Great people and champions are special gifts of God, whom He gives and preserves; they do their work, and achieve great actions, not with vain imaginations, or cold and sleepy cogitations, but by motion of God.

The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words.