It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
The human being is an animal who has received the vocation to become God.
Beside each believer stands an Angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life.
Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.
We should even go beyond doing what is required in order to avoid scandal.
O sinner be not discouraged but have recourse to Mary in all you necessities. Call her to your assistance for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity.
Drunkenness the ruin of reason the destruction of strength premature old age momentary death.
The hairsplitting difference between formed and unformed makes no difference to us. Whoever deliberately commits abortion is subject to the penalty for homicide.
Science which is acquired unwillingly soon disappears; that which is instilled into the mind in a pleasant and agreeable manner is more lasting.
We should not think that we achieve success in preaching through our own devices but we should rely entirely on God.
We often find comfort in telling what is painful in actual experience.
A woman who deliberately destroys a fetus is answerable for murder. And any fine distinction as to its being completely formed or unformed is not admissible amongst us.
There is nothing unpremeditated nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.
All who call the Holy Ghost a creature we pity on the ground that by this utterance they are falling into the unpardonable sin of blasphemy against Him.
Lust hath these three companions: the first blindness of understanding; the second hardness of heart; the third want of grace.
Just as a very little fresh water is blown away by a storm of wind and dust in like manner the good deeds that we think we do in this life are overwhelmed by the multitude of evils.
When you have become God's in the measure he desires then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless to your greater glory he chooses to keep you all to himself.
All of us who desire the kingdom of God are by the Lord's decree under an equal and rigorous necessity of seeking after the grace of Baptism.
Troubles are usually the brooms and shovels that smooth the road to a good man's fortune.
Truly unexpected tidings make both ears tingle.
No Christian ought to think of himself as his own master but each should rather so think and act as though given by God to be slave to his like minded brethren (cf. I Cor. 9:19)?
We must always be on guard lest under the pretext of keeping one commandment we be found breaking another.
By nature men desire the beautiful.
Resolve to treat the things in your possession as belonging to others.
Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?
The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
Any one who chooses will set up for a literary critic though he cannot tell us where he went to school or how much time was spent in his education and knows nothing about letters at all.
... if to me to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21) truly my words ought to be about Christ my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments and my soul to be fashioned after His.
Every divine action begins from the Father proceeds through the Son and is completed in the Holy Spirit.
Let sleep itself be an exercise in piety for such as our life and conduct have been so also of necessity will be our dreams.
He who confesses magic or sorcery shall do penance for the time of murder and shall be treated in the same manner as he who convicts himself of this sin.
Indulging in unrestrained and immoderate laughter is a sign of intemperance of a want of control over one's emotions and of failure to repress the soul's frivolity by a stern use of reason.
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship and he who plants kindness gathers love.
He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.
They who sow courtesy reap friendship and they who plant kindness gather love.
Who is the covetous man? One for whom plenty is not enough.
Wherever you may go the least plant may bring you clear remembrance of the Creator.
Therefore let God inspired Scripture decide between us; and on whichever side be found doctrines in harmony with the Word of God in favor of that side will be cast the vote of truth
Good masters teach good doctrine but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
If you begin to guard wealth it will not be yours. But if you begin to distribute it you will not lose it.
Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
The steam of meat darkens the light of the spirit...One hardly can have virtue when one enjoys meat meals and feasts...
We need not only read Sacred Scripture but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.
He who is guilty of unseemliness with males will be under discipline for the same time as adulterers.
He who plants kindness gathers love.
Everyone looks for the good therefore everyone looks for God.
To lovers of the truth nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.
Every evil is a sickness of soul but virtue offers the cause of its health.
There is still time for endurance time for patience time for healing time for change. Have you slipped? Rise up. Have you sinned? Cease. Do not stand among sinners but leap aside.
I reckon silence more profitable than speech for? in the words of the Preacher 'The words of wise men are heard in quiet' (Eccles. 9:17).
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs leaving the rest to those in want there would be no rich and no poor.
If therefore there is any grace in the water it is not from the nature of water but from the Spirit's presence there.
If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy no one would be rich no one poor no one in misery.
What is the mark of love for your neighbor? Not to seek what is for your own benefit but what is for the benefit of the one loved both in body and in soul.
I cannot persuade myself that without love to others and without as far as rests with me peaceableness toward all I can be called a worthy servant of Jesus Christ.
We should not accept in silence the benefactions of God but return thanks for them.
When someone steals a person's clothes we call him a thief. Should we not also give the same name to the one who could clothe the naked but does not?