Receive every day as a resurrection from death, as a new enjoyment of life.
What could begin to deny self, if there were not something in man different from self?
Until we are renewed in the spirit of our mind and illumined in every part, our very virtues are but taught practices grafted upon a corrupt bottom
Where has the Scripture made merit the rule or measure of charity?.
Joseph has lately endeavored to seduce my wife, and has found her a virtuous woman.
If our life is not a course of humility, self-denial, renunciation of the world, poverty of spirit, and heavenly affection, we do not live the lives of Christians.