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.

If faith fails, prayer perishes.

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.

Longing desire prayeth always, though the tongue be silent. If thou art ever longing, thou art ever praying.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.