Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the...

God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing...

He that is jealous is not in love.

Women should not be enlightened or educated in any way. They should, in fact, be segregated as they are the cause of hideous and involuntary erections in holy men.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

Love is the beauty of the soul.

People travel to marvel at the mountains, seas, rivers and stars; and they pass right by themselves without astonishment.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

The purpose of all wars…is peace.

Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.

Don’t you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.

You aspire to great things? Begin with little ones.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The danger already exists that mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and confine man in the bonds of Hell

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.

By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.