Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.