Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

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.

If by fate anyone means the will or power of God, let him keep his meaning but mend his language; for fate commonly means a necessary process which will have its way apart from the will of God and men.

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me.

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.