It is folly to abstain all day long from food, but fail to abstain from sin and selfishness.

Nothing will divide the church so much as the love of power.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

There is nothing colder than a Christian who does not seek to save others.

Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

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

If we were not passionately inclined to money or to vainglory, then we would not fear death or poverty. We would not know enmity or hatred, and we would not suffer from the sorrows of ourselves or others.