“Moreover, Christians are born for combat, whereof the greater the vehemence, the more assured, God willing, the triumph: ‘Have confidence; I have overcome the world’”

Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are altogether prohibited.

Heart of Jesus, burning with love for us, inflame our hearts with love of Thee.

Not only, in strict truth, was marriage instituted for the propagation of the human race, but also that the lives of husbands and wives might be made better and happier.

The equal toleration of all religions…is the same as atheism.

The Rosary offers an easy way to present the chief mysteries of the Christian religion and to impress then upon the mind.

The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same forever.

It is an in, a grave evil and a disturbance of the right order, for a larger and higher organisation, to arrogate to itself functions which can be performed efficiently by smaller and lower bodies.

To suffer and to endure is the lot of humanity.

We hold upon this earth the place of God Almighty.

Once the demands of necessity and propriety have been met, the rest that one owns belongs to the poor.

Peace is built on the foundation of justice.

It is not the part of prudence to neglect that which antiquity in its long experience has approved and which is also taught by apostolic authority.

No human law can abolish the natural and original right of marriage, nor in any way limit the chief and principal purpose of marriage ordained by God’s authority from the beginning: “Increase and multiply.

The liberty of thinking and publishing whatsoever each one likes, without any hindrances, is not in itself an advantage over which society can wisely rejoice. On the contrary, it is the fountainhead and origin of many evils.

Nothing emboldens the wicked so greatly as the lack of courage on the part of the good.

God is not only true, but Truth itself.

You were born to win.

Darkness is dawn not yet born.

Do what you were born to do. You just have to trust yourself.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

I dive into the future but I’m blinded by the sun. I’m reborn in every moment, so who knows what I’ll become.

All sciences are vain and full of errors that are not born of Experience, the mother of all Knowledge.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective, it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.