To abstain from sin when one can no longer sin is to be forsaken by sin, not to forsake it.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.