Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.
The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
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 deeper must be its foundation.
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.
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
Love is the beauty of the soul.
In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty.
Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
The purpose of all wars, is peace.
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
