You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.