As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout the whole world, it may be understood that they are held as approved and instituted either by the apostles themselves, or by plenary Councils, whose authority in the Church is most useful, e.g. the annual commemoration, by special solemnities, of the Lord's passion, resurrection, and ascension, and of the descent of the Holy Spirit from heaven, and whatever else is in like manner observed by the whole Church wherever it has been established.

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

What do I love when I love my God?

He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon.

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

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.