To saints their very slumber is a prayer.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

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

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.

That rain is the best which falls steadily on the earth. A sudden and excessive downpour ruins the fields.

It is worse still to be ignorant of your ignorance.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.