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

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next...They are set up on the course of their existence, and the faster they climb towards its zenith, the more they hasten towards the point where they exist no more.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

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

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.

Man's maker was made man that He, Ruler of the stars, might nurse at His mother's breast; that the Bread might hunger, the Fountain thirst, the Light sleep, the Way be tired on its journey; that Truth might be accused of false witnesses, the Teacher be beaten with whips, the Foundation be suspended on wood; that Strength might grow weak; that the Healer might be wounded; that Life might die.