Temperance is simply a disposition of the mind which binds the passion.

If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.

Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.

The magnitude of the punishment matches the magnitude of the sin. Now a sin that is against God is infinite; the higher the person against whom it is committed, the graver the sin-it is more criminal to strike a head of state than a private citizen-and God is of infinite greatness. Therefore an infinite punishment is deserved for a sin committed against Him.

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.

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

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