The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Every cell in us worships God.
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain.
Sin is a spiritual illness; thus sinners are in need of salvation.
A scrap of knowledge about sublime things is worth more than any amount about trivialities.
To virginity is awarded the tribute of the highest beauty
There being an imminent danger for the faith, prelates must be questioned, even publicly, by their subjects.
Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.
Art is right reason in the doing of work.
It may well happen that what is in itself the more certain on account of the weakness of our intelligence, which is dazzled by the clearest objects of nature; as the owl is dazzled by the light of the sun. Hence the fact that some happen to doubt about articles of faith is not due to the uncertain nature of the truths, but to the weakness of human intelligence; yet the slenderest knowledge that may be obtained of the highest things is more desirable than the most certain knowledge obtained of lesser things.
One will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.
The soul, which is the first principle of life, is not a body, but the act of a body; just as heat, which is the principle of calefaction, is not a body, but an act of a body.
God is never angry for His sake, only for ours.
Beware the man of a single book.
Well-ordered self-love is right and natural.
Any error about creation also leads to an error about God.
Distinctions drawn by the mind are not necessarily equivalent to distinctions in reality.
Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o'er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
Far graver is it to corrupt the faith that is the life of the soul than to counterfeit the money that sustains temporal life.
He that obstinately denieth the truth before men upon earth, wilfully refuseth his soul's health in heaven.
In the realm of evil thoughts none induces to sin as much as do thoughts that concern the pleasure of the flesh.
Whenever God wakes in us, our thinking becomes clear - nothing is missing.
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
Every judgement of conscience, be it right or wrong, be it about things evil in themselves or morally indifferent, is obligatory, in such wise that he who acts against his conscience always sins.
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