Saint

Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.

Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.

Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

This world's a bubble.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.

There is no possible source of evil except good.

Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent.

The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.