The Devil often transforms himself into an angel to tempt men, some for their instruction, some for their ruin.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

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

He was created of a mother whom He created. He was carried by hands that He formed. He cried in the manger in wordless infancy. He, the Word, without whom all human eloquence is mute.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an angel.