I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

For what am I to myself without You, but a guide to my own downfall?

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

It is better that the truth be known than that scandal be covered up.

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.

It is better to be cured in the Church than to be cut off from this Body as incurable ... for, as long as the member is still attached to the Body, his cure is not beyond hope, but when he has been cut off, he can neither be treated nor cured.