Let us return from that Table like lions breathing out fire, terrifying to the devil!

Many can give money to those in need, but to personally serve the needy readily, out of love, and in a fraternal spirit, requires a truly great soul.

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

Fasting of the body is food for the soul.

Let us not overlook so great a gain.

Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

Hell is paved with priests' skulls.