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.

Laughter has been implanted in our soul, that the soul may sometime be refreshed.

Glory be to God for all things!

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

It is certainly a greater and more wonderful work to change the minds of enemies, bringing about a change of soul, than to kill them.

"He passed over his fall, and appointed him first of the Apostles; wherefore He said: ' 'Simon, Simon,' etc. (in Ps. cxxix. 2). God allowed him to fall, because He meant to make him ruler over the whole world, that, remembering his own fall, he might forgive those who should slip in the future. And that what I have said is no guess, listen to Christ Himself saying: 'Simon, Simon, etc.'"

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.