If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times.

Who can control this when its appetite is aroused? No one! In the very movement of this appetite, then, it has no "mode" that responds to the decisions of the will ... Yet what he wishes he cannot accomplish ... In the very movement of the appetite, it has no mode corresponding to the decision of the will.

For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise.

Remember this. When people choose to withdraw far from a fire, the fire continues to give warmth, but they grow cold. When people choose to withdraw far from light, the light continues to be bright in itself but they are in darkness. This is also the case when people withdraw from God.