O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.