You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

Love God, then do what you will.

For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, "Thou half of my soul"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were "one soul in two bodies": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not.