For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

Doubt is but another element of faith.

That your enemies have been created is God's doing; that they hate you and wish to ruin you is their own doing. What should you say about them in your mind? "Lord be merciful to them, forgive them their sins, put the fear of God in them, change them!" You are loving in them not what they are, but what you would have them to become.