It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious.

Law has the power to compel: indeed, the ability to enforce is a condition of the ability to command.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.

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.

Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.

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