Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

For in our hope we are saved.

Baptism does not profit a man outside unity with the Church ... For many heretics also possess this Sacrament but not the fruits of salvation ... The benefits which flow from Baptism are necessarily fruits which belong to the true Church alone. Children Baptized in other communions cease to be members of the Church when, after reaching the age of reason, they make formal profession of heresy, as, for example, by receiving communion in a non-Catholic Church.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.