It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

Small minds cannot grasp great subjects.

The fact is that my native land is a prey to barbarism, that in it men's only God is their belly, that they live only for the present, and that the richer a man is the holier he is held to be.

Let us learn upon earth those things which can call us to heaven.

Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.

[O]pulence is always the result of theft, if not committed by the actual possessor, then by his predecessors.