You can call happy those who saw Him... But, come to the altar and you will see Him, you will touch Him, you will give to Him holy kisses, you will wash Him with your tears, you will carry Him within you like Mary Most Holy.

Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all.

Men have the power of thinking that they may avoid sin.

...there is nothing that has been created without some reason, even if human nature is incapable of knowing precisely the reason for them all.

Please listen to me - you are not paying attention. I am talking to you about the Holy Scriptures, and you are looking at the lamps and the people lighting them. It is very frivolous to be more interested in what the lamplighters are doing... After all, I am lighting a lamp too - the lamp of God's Word.

It is a shame for a man to desire honor because of his noble progenitors, and not to deserve it by his own virtue.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.