You have enemies. For who can live on this earth without them? Take heed to yourselves: love them. In no way can your enemy so hurt you by his violence, as you hurt yourself if you love him not.

Be always displeased at what thou art, if thou desirest to attain to what thou art not.

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

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.