If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every man that only Christ can fill.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run.