And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.

What you are must always displease you, if you would attain to that which you are not.

Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee.

Temperance is love surrendering itself wholly to Him who is its object; courage is love bearing all things gladly for the sake of Him who is its object; justice is love serving only Him who is its object, and therefore rightly ruling; prudence is love making wise distinction between what hinders and what helps itself.

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

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

I believe in order to understand