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

Human law cannot punish or forbid all evil, since while doing away with evils it would do away with many good things, which would hinder the advance of the common good.

Give what You command and command what You will.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.

By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

I had a clear idea about what time is till I was asked to explain it and ceased to understand it altogether as soon as I began explaining it.