Who would not shudder if he were given the choice of eternal death or life again as a child ? Who would not choose to die ?

Understanding is the reward of faith.

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

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

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

There is no health in those who are displeased by an element in Your creation, just as there was none in me when I was displeased by many things You had made. Because my soul didn't dare to say that my God displeased me, it refused to attribute to You whatever was displeasing.

It is not the being seen of men that is wrong, but doing these things for the purpose of being seen of men. The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation.