Humility must accompany all our actions, must be with us everywhere; for as soon as we glory in our good works they are of no further value to our advancement in virtue.

I do not doubt that all those who have received Baptism anywhere and from whomever do have Baptism, as long as it was consecrated with the words of the Gospel and they received it without pretence on their part and with some degree of faith. However, it would not avail them for their spiritual salvation if they were lacking in that charity by which they might be implanted in the Catholic Church.

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.