Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. 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. Modest humility is beauty's crown.

It will not be held against you that you are ignorant against your will, but that you neglect to seek out what it is that makes you ignorant; not that you cannot bring together your wounded limbs, but that you reject Him that would heal them.

It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels.

Because I do it with one small ship, I am called a terrorist. You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.

Solvitur ambulando . . . it is solved by walking.

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.

No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.