No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

Try to acquire the virtues you believe lacking in your brothers. Then you will no longer see their defects, for you will no longer have them yourself.

For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind.

If you understand, it is not God.

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?