Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.

He who is filled with love is filled with God himself.

To touch God a little with our mind is a great blessing, to grasp him is impossible.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

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

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.

The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices.