Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew yourselves' from day to day. This is what we do with houses: we keep constantly repairing them as they wear old. You should do the same thing to yourself. Have you sinned today? Have you made your soul old? Do not despair, do not despond, but renew your soul by repentance, and tears, and Confession, and by doing good things. And never cease doing this.

Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.

It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

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.

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