You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

The Devil invented gambling.

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

The greatest evil is physical pain.

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?