You cannot pray at home, like you can at church, where there is a great multitude; where exclamations are cried out to God as from one great heart, and where there is something more: the unions of minds, the accord of souls, the bond of charity, the prayers of priests.

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.

If then we have Angels, let us be sober, as though we were in the presence of tutors; for there is a demon present also.

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

Words cannot express the joy which a friend imparts.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.