Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

To sing is to pray twice.

Now, may our God be our hope. He Who made all things is better than all things. He Who made all beautiful things is more beautiful than all of them. He Who made all mighty things is more mighty than all of them. He Who made all great things is greater than all of them. Learn to love the Creator in His creature, and the maker in what He has made.