Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Poetry is devil's wine.

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

The most venerable, clearly understood, enlightened, and reliable constant in the world is not only that we want to be happy, but that we want only to be so. Our very nature requires it of us.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son.