Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

Do you think that the man-loving God has given you much so that you could use it only for your own benefit? No, but so that your abundance might supply the lack of others.

This is the highest point of philosophy, to be simple & wise; this is the angelic life.

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

A friend is more to be longed for than the light; I speak of a genuine one. And wonder not: for it were better for us that the sun should be extinguished, than that we should be deprived of friends; better to live in darkness, than to be without friends

The Eucharist is a fire that inflames us, that, like lions breathing fire, we may retire from the altar being made terrible to the devil.

The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.