I was unhappy and so is every soul unhappy which is tied to its love for mortal things; when it loses them, it is torn in pieces, and it is then that it comes to realize the unhappiness which was there even before it lost them.

Temporal punishments are suffered by some in this life only, by some after death, by some both here and hereafter, but all of them before that last and strictest judgment. But not all who suffer temporal punishments after death will come to eternal punishments, which are to follow after that judgment.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.