For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave.

The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

There is no salvation outside the church.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.