Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

As long as the vice of gluttony has a hold on a man, all that he has done valiantly is forfeited by him: and as long as the belly is unrestrained, all virtue comes to naught.

There are in truth three states of the converted: the beginning, the middle, and the perfection. In the beginning they experience the charms of sweetness; in the middle the contests of temptation; and in the end the fullness of perfection.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in Her and asserts that all who are outside of Her will not be saved.

Whoever wishes to hold the fortress of contemplation must first of all train in the camp of action.

The universe is not rich enough to buy the vote of an honest man.