Vanity is truly the motive power that moves humanity, and it is flattery that greases the wheels.
No created mind, no created heart, no human force is capable of knowing how much love the Heart of Mary had for the Lord.
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.
If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.
The enemy of reflection is the breakneck pace - the thousand pictures.
We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.
Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.
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.
Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.
For it is good to cleave to God, and to put our hopes in the Lord, so that, when we have exchanged this poor life for the kingdom of heaven, we may cry aloud: 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? There is none upon earth that I desire beside thee.' Assuredly, when we have found such wealth in heaven, we may well grieve to have sought after poor passing pleasures here on earth.
Everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Nothing is hard for lovers, no labor is difficult for those who wish it.
Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young
Nothing gives us a greater idea of our soul, than that God has given us, at the moment of our birth, an angel to take care of it.
Love is not to be purchased, and affection has no price.
No one loves to tell of scandal except to him who loves to hear it. Learn, then, to rebuke and check the detracting tongue by showing that you do not listen to it with pleasure.
Always be doing something worthwhile; then the devil will always find you busy.
Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.
True friendship ought never to conceal what it thinks.
Marriage fills the Earth, virginity Heaven.
A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.
They talk like angels but they live like men.
No athlete is crowned but in the sweat of his brow.
To perceive is to categorize, to conceptualize is to categorize, to learn is to form categories, to make decisions is to categorize.
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