If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

He suddenly announced that he could not write any more since "All that I have written seems like straw to me."

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

The things that we love tell us what we are.

A song is the exultation of the mind dwelling on eternal things, bursting forth in the voice.

To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.

Because we cannot know what God is, but only what He is not, we cannot consider how He is but only how He is not.