Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Poltinus the Platonist proves by means of the blossoms and leaves that from the Supreme God, whose beauty is invisible and ineffable, Providence reaches down to the things of earth here below. He points out that these frail and mortal objects could not be endowed with a beauty so immaculate and so exquisitely wrought, did they not issue from the Divinity which endlessly prevades with its invisible and unchanging beauty all things.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.