The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit; He will reign in you if your heart is at peace. So, be at peace, Mademoiselle, and you will honor in a sovereign way the God of peace and love.

[T]hese losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the Church entirely in Europe. So, keeping this fear in mind, blessed are those who cooperate in extending the Church elsewhere.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

Peace is worth far more than anything they might take from you.

Laws must never be made compatible with crimes, no more than lying should be in harmony with the truth.

There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to do more than we reasonably can.