Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.

I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.

Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.