A man's heart is right when he wills what God wills.
To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
One aspect of neighbourly love is that we must not merely will our neighbours good, but actually work to bring it about.
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
Mercy without justice is the mother of dissolution; justice without mercy is cruelty.
We set forth our petitions before God, not in order to make known to Him our needs and desires, but rather so that we ourselves may realize that in these things it is necessary to turn to God for help.
Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.
Wonder is the desire of knowledge.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
The Eucharist is the Sacrament of Love; It signifies Love, It produces love. The Eucharist is the consummation of the whole spiritual life.
Obedience unites us so closely to God that it in a way transforms us into Him, so that we have no other will but His. If obedience is lacking, even prayer cannot be pleasing to God.
We should love others truly, for their own sakes rather than our own.
True peace consists in not separating ourselves from the will of God.
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
Humility is the mark of a genuine disciple.
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes.
To love God is something greater than to know Him.
He who achieves power by violence does not truly become lord or master.
What does it take to become a saint? Will it.
Whatever is received is received according to the nature of the recipient.
In the life of the body a man is sometimes sick, and unless he takes medicine, he will die. Even so in the spiritual life a man is sick on account of sin. For that reason he needs medicine so that he may be restored to health; and this grace is bestowed in the Sacrament of Penance.
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