A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the strength of the Church depends upon them all alike, yet one among the twelve is chosen so that when a head has been appointed, there may be no occasion for schism.
No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.
Woman is the root of all evil.
It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
They please the world most, who please Christ least.
Failure is the inspiration of tomorrow's entrepreneurs.
Endeavor to have always in your hand a pious book, that with this shield you may defend yourself against bad thoughts.
Love knows nothing of order.
Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.
Honest speech does not seek secret places.
Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.
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.
To ignore Scripture is to ignore Christ.
When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.
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 scars of others should teach us caution.
The friendship that can cease has never been real.
Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, "Why do you not practice what you preach?
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.
A vice in the heart is an idol on the altar.
To read without writing is to sleep.
Avoid, as you would the plague, a clergyman who is also a man of business.
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
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.
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