Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

Do what you can and pray for what you cannot yet do.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!

In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it.

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.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.