God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

When we read a book, our most essential trait - imagination - is given the opportunity to soar.

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.

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.

They the hazers or eversores were rightly called Overturners, since they had themselves been first overturned and perverted, tricked by those same devils who were secretly mocking them in the very acts by which they amused themselves in mocking and making fools of others.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.