Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

Slavery is not penal in character and planned by that law which commands the preservation of the natural order and forbids disturbance.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Only He who made man makes man happy.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

What is more insane than to be partakers of the Sacraments of the Lord and not partakers of the words of the Lord? These men truly have to say: "In Thy Name we have eaten and drunk," and they will have to hear: "I do not know you!" (Luke 13:26-27). They eat and drink His Body and Blood in the Sacrament and do not recognize in the Gospel His members spread over the whole world, and for this reason they are not numbered among them at the Judgment.