When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

Why do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a purpose, obviously. Tell me then, what is the purpose of all the activity of the world? Answer, I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity.

The pains of hell are not the greatest part of hell; the loss of heaven is the weightiest woe of hell.

The Holy Scriptures do not know any distinctions. They enjoin that all lead the life of monks.

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?

O most grateful burden, which comforts them that carry it! The burdens of earthly masters gradually wear out the strength of those who carry them; but the burden of Christ assists the bearers of it, because we carry not grace, but grace us.

And all men are ready to pass judgement on the priest as if he was not a being clothed with flesh, or one who inherited a human nature.