What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice.

Before God can deliver us we must undeceive ourselves.

Do not be afraid to throw yourself on the Lord! He will not draw back and let you fall! Put your worries aside and throw yourself on him; He will welcome you and heal you.

Without God, man cannot, and without man, God will not.

Whatever skills I have acquired, whatever gifts I have been given, I place them at Your service.

If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?

All truth and understanding is a result of a divine light which is God Himself.

Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend.

He who does little, but in a state to which God calls him, does more than he who labors much, but in a state which he has thoughtlessly chosen: a cripple limping in the right way is better than a racer out of it.

If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God.

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

To seek the greatest good is to live well, and to live well is nothing other than to love God with the whole heart, the whole soul, and the whole mind: It is therefore obvious that this love must be kept whole and uncorrupt, that is temperance; it should not be overcome with difficulties, that is fortitude, it must not be subservient to anything else, that is justice; it must discriminate among things so as not to be deceived by falsity or fraud, that is prudence.

Lord, teach me to know you, and to know myself.

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

There never can have been, and never can be, and there never shall be any sin without pride.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

We should never use the truth to wound.

Do not wander far and wide but return into yourself. Deep within man there dwells the truth.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

In my deepest wound I saw your glory, and it dazzled me.

The cost of obedience is small compared with the cost of disobedience.

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

God is more anxious to bestow his blessings on us than we are to receive them.