Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

Believe that you may understand.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!