It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

For what is faith unless it is to believe what you do not see?

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Our whole business in this Life is to restore to health the eye of the heart whereby God may be seen.

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.

We speak, but it is God who teaches.