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

Before all things, the Teacher of Peace and the Master of Unity would not have prayer made singly and individually, as for one who prays only for himself. For we do not say, My Father, who art in heaven... Our prayer is public and common and when we pray, we pray not for one, but for the whole people, because we the whole people are one.

Knowing that there is one Baptism, we who hold the head and root of the One Church know for certain that to him who is outside the Church nothing is lawful.

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

The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.

The world is going mad in mutual extermination, and murder, considered as a crime when committed individually, becomes a virtue when it is committed by large numbers. It is the multiplication of the frenzy that assures impunity to the assassins.

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

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

By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.

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

The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.

Persevere in labors that lead to salvation. Always be busy in spiritual actions. In this way, no matter how often the enemy of our souls approaches, no matter how many times he may try to come near us, he'll find our hearts closed and armed against him.

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

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

If any man thirst, let him come and drink from the rivers of living water (cf. John 7:38). Where shall he who thirsts come? To heretics where the fountain and river of water is in no way life-giving? Or to the Church, which is One?

Let us, then, who in Baptism have both died and been buried in respect to the carnal sins of the old man, who have risen again with Christ in the heavenly regeneration, both think upon and do the things that are Christ's.

He [Christ] protects their faith and gives strength to believers in proportion to the trust that each man who receives that strength is willing to place in him.