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.

The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?

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.

Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul.

A wanton eye is a messenger of an unchaste heart.

Believe that others are better than you in the debths of their soul, although outwardly you may appear better than they.

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.