True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.

Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

A man who is well grounded in the testimonies of the Scripture is the bulwark of the Church.

Do not marvel at the novelty of the thing, if a Virgin gives birth to God.

Martyrdom does not consist only in dying for one's faith. Martyrdom also consists in serving God with love and purity of heart every day of one's life

For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.