We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized.

I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

Purity of soul cannot be lost without consent.

There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.

Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?

I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so.