The same divine authority that forbids the killing of a human being establishes certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives an explicit commission to an individual for a limited time.

If you are silent, be silent out of love. If you speak, speak out of love.

The Devil invented gambling.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.

Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop.

Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.