Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Let us leave a little room for reflection in our lives, room too for silence. Let us look within ourselves and see whether there is some delightful hidden place inside where we can be free of noise and argument. Let us hear the Word of God in stillness and perhaps we will then come to understand it.

The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church.

We should never use the truth to wound.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.