The proof of love is in the works. Where love exists, it works great things. But when it ceases to act, it ceases to exist.

Obedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.

The human mind is prone to pride even when not supported by power; how much more, then, does it exalt itself when it has that support?

If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.

To do penance is to bewail the evil we have done, and to do no evil to bewail.

The Holy Bible is like a mirror before our mind's eye. In it we see our inner face. From the Scriptures we can learn our spiritual deformities and beauties. And there too we discover the progress we are making and how far we are from perfection.

The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.