Beware of despairing about yourself: you are commanded to put your trust in God, and not in yourself.

A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'

Two works of mercy set a person free: Forgive and you will be forgiven, and give and you will receive.

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

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