For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.

Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.

To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.

It is not possible to be ignorant of the end of things if we know their beginning.

That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.