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

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.

There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it.

Though he avoided outright endorsement of the view, fifth-century Church Father Saint Augustine was clearly familiar with the theory of the spherical earth: "They [those who believe that "there are men on the other side of the earth"] fail to observe that even if the world is held to be global or rounded in shape, or if some process of reasoning should prove this to be the case, it would still not necessarily follow that the land on the opposite side is not covered by masses of water."

The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

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

And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.