Just think of the illimitable abundance and the marvelous loveliness of light, or of the beauty of the sun and moon and stars.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.

One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever.

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.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.