It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Make friends with angels.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble