The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Whoever seems to himself to have understood the Scriptures in such a way that he does not build up that double love of God and neighbor has not yet understood.

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

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

It was in His flesh that Christ walked among us and it is His flesh that He has given us to eat for our salvation; but no one eats of this flesh without having first adored it . . . and not only do we not sin in thus adoring it, but we would be sinning if we did not do so.

There is no salvation outside the church.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.