“Keep doing some kind of work, that the devil may always find you employed.”

Even while living in the world, the heart of Mary was so filled with motherly tenderness and compassion for men that no-one ever suffered so much for their own pains, as Mary suffered for the pains of her children.

Every day we are changing, every day we are dying, and yet we fancy ourselves eternal.

Marriage is good for those who are afraid to sleep alone at night.

No one cares to speak to an unwilling listener. An arrow never lodges in a stone: often it recoils upon the shooter of it.

When we pray we speak to God; but when we read, God speaks to us.

When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting.

Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.

A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.

Catch, then, O catch the transient hour; Improve each moment as it flies!

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

Malice swallows the greatest part of its own venom.

The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it.

Woman is the root of all evil.

I praise wedlock, I praise marital union, but only because they produce me virgins.

Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

A false interpretation of Scripture causes that the gospel of the Lord becomes the gospel of man, or, which is worse, of the devil.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

The Devil often places himself upon the tongues of creatures, causing them to chatter nonsensically.

Rock has always been the devil’s music… I believe that rock & roll is dangerous… I feel that we’re only heralding something even darker than ourselves.

Don’t play with the Devil, he always cheats.

The Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.

I want more for you than you want for yourself. Everyone needs an advocate who’s not the devil. – your advocate.

Sometimes you have to deal / Devilishly with drowning men in order to swim them to shore.

It is a human thing to sin, but perseverance in sin is a thing of the devil.