A man does not possess all the gifts, lest he think that grace is nature.

Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

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

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

Laughter does not seem to be a sin, but it leads to sin.

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

What good is it if the Eucharistic table is overloaded with golden chalices when your brother is dying of hunger. Start by satisfying his hunger and then with what is left you may adorn the altar as well.