Since you cannot do good to all, you are to pay special attention to those who, by the accidents of time, or place, or circumstances, are brought into closer connection with you.
For in our hope we are saved.
Behold, now, how foolish it is, in so great an abundance of the truest opinions which can be extracted from these words, rashly to affirm which of them Moses particularly meant; and with pernicious co...
Indeed we also work, but we are only collaborating with God who works, for his mercy has gone before us. It has gone before us so that we may be healed, and follows us so that once healed, we may be g...
He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.
Sin is looking for the right thing in the wrong place.
I am no more than a child, but my Father lives for ever and I have a Protector great enough to save me.
Thus, every entity, even if it is a defective one, in so far as it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.
Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou corre...
My weight is my love.
How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.
His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses: present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation.
Every visible thing in this world is put in the charge of an Angel.
The good man is free, even if he is a slave. The evil man is a slave, even if he is a king.
So too let him rejoice and delight in finding you who are beyond discovery rather than fail to find you by supposing you to be discoverable.
He who lives according to God ought to cherish towards evil men a perfect hatred, so that he shall neither hate the man because of his vice nor love the vice because of the man.
The earthly city glories in itself, the Heavenly City glories in the Lord.
This disease of curiosity.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. Th...
To what place can I invite you, then, since I am in you? Or where could you come from, in order to come into me? To what place outside heaven and earth could I travel, so that my God could come to me...