...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

This entire most beautiful order of good things is going to pass away after its measure has been exhausted; for both morning and evening were made in them.

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.