For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

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.

The one who is good, is free even being a slave; the one who is bad remains a slave even being a king.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.