No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much.

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake.