One cannot imagine St. Francis of Assisi talking about rights.

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation.

An atheist may be simply one whose faith and love are concentrated on the impersonal aspects of God.

[We are not] to take one step, even in the direction of what is good, beyond that to which we are irresistibly impelled by God, and this applies to action, word, and thought.

Renunciation is submission to time.

Fire destroys that which feeds it.

When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.