The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

It is not often that we use language correctly; usually we use it incorrectly, though we understand each others meaning.

Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

We judge all things according to the divine truth.

If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established.