The Cross to me is certain salvation. The Cross is that which I ever adore. The Cross of the Lord is with me. The Cross is my refuge.

Pain itself can be pleasurable accidentally in so far as it is accompanied by wonder, as in stage-plays; or in so far as it recalls a beloved object to one's memory, and makes one feel one's love for the thing, whose absence gives us pain. Consequently, since love is pleasant, both pain and whatever else results from love, in so far as they remind us of our love, are pleasant.

God answered the prayers of animals.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.

It is possible to demonstrate God's existence, although not a priori, yet a posteriori from some work of His more surely known to us.

Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.