They talk like angels but they live like men.

To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Out of one hundred thousand sinners who continue in sin until death, scarcely one will be saved.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

The eating of meat was unknown up to the big flood, but since the flood they have put the strings and stinking juices of animal meat into our mouths, just as they threw in front of the grumbling sensual people in the desert. Jesus Christ, who appeared when the time had been fulfilled, has again joined the end with the beginning, so that it is no longer allowed for us to eat animal meat.