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

Whatsoever one would understand what he hears must hasten to put into practice what he has heard.

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.

And here we must narrowly watch ourselves, seeing that banquets can scarcely be celebrated blamelessly, for almost always luxury accompanies feasting; and when the body is swallowed up in the delight of refreshing itself, the heart relaxes to empty joys.

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.

You don't climb a mountain in leaps and bounds, but by taking it slowly.

The people will have no need to change their place of concourse; where of old they were wont to sacrifice cattle to demons, thither let them continue to resort on the day of the Saint to whom the Church is dedicated, and slay their beasts, no longer as a sacrifice to demons, but for a social meal in honour of Him whom they now worship.