Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

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.

And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?