To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.

My love is my weight. Because of it, I move.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the mind in common with men.