By means of corporal and temporal things we may comprehend the eternal and the spiritual.

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.

That one woman is both mother and virgin, not in spirit only but even in body. In spirit she is mother, not of our head, who is our Savior himself-of whom all, even she herself, are rightly called children of the bridegroom-but plainly she is the mother of us who are his members, because by love she has cooperated so that the faithful, who are the members of that head, might be born in the Church. In body, indeed, she is the Mother of that very head.

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.