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

This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

Do not believe yourself healthy. Immortality is health; this life is a long sickness.

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it; and when it no longer feels any desire, then it possesses perfect charity.

God gives where he finds empty hands.

No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor.