The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins.

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.

The entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.