Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

Love can be angry... with a kind of anger in which there is no gall, like the dove's and not the ravens.

It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

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

Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created the world in six days; rather the contrary is true. God created the world in six days because this number is perfect, and it would remain perfect, even if the work of the six days did not exist.