Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

True happiness is to rejoice in the truth, for to rejoice in the truth is to rejoice in You, O God, who are the truth... Those who think that there is another kind of happiness look for joy elsewhere, but theirs is not true joy.

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.