How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Peace is the work of justice indirectly, in so far as justice removes the obstacles to peace; but it is the work of charity (love) directly, since charity, according to its very notion, causes peace.

This Blood that but one drop of has the power to win all the world forgiveness of its world of sin.

Sloth is sluggishness of the mind which neglects to begin good...it is evil in its effect, if it so oppresses man as to draw him away entirely from good deeds.

No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.

Future contingents cannot be certain to us, because we know them as such. They can be certain only to God whose understanding is in eternity above time. Just as a man going along a road does not see those who come after him; but the man who sees the whole road from a height sees all those who are going along the road at the same time.

As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.