Characteristics which define beauty are wholeness, harmony and radiance.

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.

For although the will cannot be inwardly moved by any creature, yet it can be moved inwardly by God.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.