No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words "thy neighbor," which are inserted when false witness is forbidden.

The way to Christ is first through humility, second through humility, and third through humility. If humility does not precede and accompany and follow every good work we do, if it is not before us to focus on, it it is not beside us to lean upon, if it is not behind us to fence us in, pride will wrench from our hand any good deed we do at the very moment we do it.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.