No one indeed believes anything unless he has first thought that it it to be believed.

You are surprised that the world is losing its grip? That the world is grown old? Don't hold onto the old man, the world; don't refuse to regain your youth in Christ, who says to you: 'The world is passing away; the world is losing its grip; the world is short of breath. Don't fear, your youth shall be renewed as an eagle.'

So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you.

We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

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.