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

It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.

The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.

We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.

Grace does not destroy nature, it perfects it.

An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.

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