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Our prayers and fastings are of less avail, unless they are aided by almsgiving.

No one can have God for his Father, who has not the Church for his mother.

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

The beard must not be plucked. 'You will not deface the figure of your beard'.

Think not that you are thus maintaining the Gospel of Christ when you separate yourselves from the flock of Christ.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

This supernatural bread and this consecrated chalice are for the health and salvation of mankind.

It is a persistent evil to persecute a man who belongs to the grace of God. It is a calamity without remedy to hate the happy.

Custom, though never so ancient, without truth, is but an old error.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

Be constantly committed to prayer or to reading [Scripture]; by praying, you speak to God, in reading, God speaks to you.

No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

Baptism pertains to the Church alone.

Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

The wretched bodies of the condemned shall simmer and blaze in those living fires.

Murder, considered a crime when people commit it singly, is transformed into a virtue when they do it en masse.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.