When you are weary of praying, and do not receive, consider how often you have heard a poor man calling, and have not listened to him.

"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.'"

Where dance is, there is the devil.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

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.

Even if we stand at the very summit of virtue, it is by mercy that we shall be saved.