We must understand then, that even though God doesn't always give us what we want, He always gives us what we need for our salvation.

Man has been naturally so created that it is advantageous for him to be submissive, but disastrous for him to follow his own will, and not the will of his creator.

O Sacrament of Love! O sign of Unity! O bond of Charity! He who would have Life finds here indeed a Life to live in and a Life to live by.

God without us will not as we without God cannot.

It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.

The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books.