Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.
Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
If you call [the synagogue] a brothel, a den of vice, the devil's refuge, Satan's fortress, a place to deprave the soul, an abyss of every conceivable disaster or whatever else you will, you are still saying less than it deserves.
Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Without doubt, the Lord grants all favors which are asked of Him in Mass, provided they be fitting for us.
A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
Whosoever you are who introduce new doctrines, I beseech you to spare the ears of Romans! Spare that faith which was commended by the voice of an Apostle. Why should you attempt to teach us, at the end of hundreds of years, that which we never heard before? Why bring forward what Peter and Paul did not will to make known? Until this day, the world was Christian without your doctrine. Thus, I hold as an old man onto that faith wherein I was regenerated as a boy.
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.
Music to me is a voice, my voice, it's my way of expressing what colours can I bring in, what emotions, what feel. What ideas can I bring out from these instruments that would make this song come alive.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
The best advice that I can give you is this. Church-traditions — especially when they do not run counter to the faith — are to be observed in the form in which previous generations have handed them down; and the use of one church is not to be annulled because it is contrary to that of another.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
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