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.

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.

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

When fear is excessive it can make many a man despair.

How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.

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

The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.