If you lose your soul, there is a danger of its being destroyed. Therefore, you may not love it, since you do not want it to be destroyed. But in not wanting it to be destroyed, you love it.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

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.

Jesus took His flesh from the flesh of Mary

Although among heretics and schismatics there is the same Baptism, nevertheless, the remission of sins is not operative among them because of the very rottenness of discord and wickedness of dissension ... Baptism was in them, but it did not profit them outside the Church ... Outside the Church, Baptism works death because of discord.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.