I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!

The true religion has always been one from the beginning, and will always be the same.

If we tread our vices under our feet, we make of them a ladder by which to rise to higher things.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

To withhold forgiveness is to take poison and expect the unforgiven to die.

Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look below you! Read it. God, whom you want to discover, never wrote that book with ink. Instead, He set before your eyes the things that He had made. Can you ask for a louder voice than that?