Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.