Doubt is but another element of faith.

In my unloveliness I plunged into the lovely things which you created. You were with me, but I was not with you. Created things kept me from you; yet if they had not been in you, they would have not been at all.

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth.

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.