Mary means Star of the sea, for as mariners are guided to port by the ocean star, so Christians attain to glory through Mary's maternal intercession.
As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
We can't have full knowledge all at once. We must start by believing; then afterwards we may be led on to master the evidence for ourselves.
The happy man in this life needs friends.
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.
To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.
Every truth without exception- and whoever may utter it- is from the Holy Spirit.
The soul is known by it's acts.
The proper effect of the Eucharist is the transformation of man into God.
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
Faith will tell us Christ is present, When our human senses fail.
The Church has ever proved indestructible. Her persecutors have failed to destroy her; in fact, it was during times of persecution that the Church grew more and more; while the persecutors themselves, and those whom the Church would destroy, are the very ones who came to nothing. . . .Again, errors have assailed her; but in fact, the greater the number of errors that have arisen, the more has the truth been made manifest. . . . Nor has the Church failed before the assaults of demons: for she is like a tower of refuge to all who fight against the Devil.
God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.
Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.
All the efforts of the human mind cannot exhaust the essence of a single fly.
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
Faith is God's work within us.
To teach in order to lead others to faith is the task of every preacher and of each believer.
There is but one Church in which men find salvation, just as outside the ark of Noah it was not possible for anyone to be saved.
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
You change people by delight, by pleasure.
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
Believing is an act of the intellect assenting to the divine truth by command of the will moved by God through grace.
Miracles are signs not to them that believe, but to them that believe not.
It is altogether unlawful to kill oneself... Wherefore suicide is contrary to the inclination of nature, and to charity whereby every man should love himself... Life is God's gift to man, and is subject to His power, Who kills and makes to live. Hence whoever takes his own life, sins against God... for it belongs to God alone to pronounce sentence of death and life.
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