If you want to be saved look at the face of your Christ.
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out; give us an upright heart, which no unworthy purpose...
Human nature inclines us to have recourse to petition for the purpose of obtaining from another, especially from a person of higher rank, what we hope to receive from him. So prayer is recommended to...
Law is nothing other than a certain ordinance of reason for the common good, promulgated by the person who has the care of the community.
God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first and primary object of his love. Therefore he wants the desires of his rational creature...
Wonder is the desire for knowledge.
That the saints may enjoy their beatitude and the grace of God more abundantly they are permitted to see the punishment of the damned in hell.
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good.
If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because He Himself is the way.
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.
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of...
How can we live in harmony? First we need to know we are all madly in love with the same God.
Moral science is better occupied when treating of friendship than of justice.
Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
The knowledge of God is the cause of things. For the knowledge of God is to all creatures what the knowledge of the artificer is to things made by his art.
The soul is like an uninhabited worldthat comes to life only whenGod lays His headagainst us.
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
Hold firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church.