“We must love Christ and always seek Christ’s embraces. Then everything difficult will seem easy.”

Either we must speak as we dress, or dress as we speak. Why do we profess one thing and display another? The tongue talks of chastity, but the whole body reveals impurity.

So valuable to heaven is the dignity of the human soul that every member of the human race has a guardian angel from the moment the person begins to be.

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

Strictly speaking, one should not even rightly compare virginity to marriage because you cannot make a comparison between two things if one is good and the other evil.

When I could not see the light with my blind eyes, I blamed not my eyes, but the sun.

We need more music that is passionate and meaningful and honest.

If a soul is not clothed with the teachings of the Church he cannot merit to have Jesus seated in him.

Among us, what is not allowed to women is equally not allowed to men.

While truth is always bitter, pleasantness waits upon evildoing.

Haste is of the Devil.

Seek to learn on earth those truths which will remain ever valid in Heaven.

And as regards Adam and Eve we must maintain that before the fall they were virgins in Paradise: but after they sinned, and were cast out of Paradise, they were immediately married.

Wine is the first weapon that devils use in attacking the young.

A fat stomach never breeds fine thoughts.

Virginity can be lost by a thought.

Preferring to store her money in the stomachs of the needy rather than hide it in a purse.

One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen.

I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.

I believe that I’m one of the best in the world at what I do, and that’s all I’ve ever wanted to be.

I’ve always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.

I feel like I inspire more people than I think I do. I just need to remember that.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

I really believe Jesus’s forgiveness is the answer to our shame and our feelings of helplessness.