God Almighty would in no way permit evil in His works were He not so omnipotent and good that even out of evil He could work good.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God’s debtor.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

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.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.