A true worshipper is one whose mind has not been defiled with any false belief.

Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.

The faith by which we live shall never vary in any age . . . for one is the faith which sanctifies the Just of all ages.

No one, however weak, is denied a share in the victory of the cross. No one is beyond the help of the prayer of Christ.

Those who are not good to others are bad to themselves.

A great safeguard is the entire faith, the true faith, in which neither anything whatever can be added by anyone nor anything taken away; for, unless faith be one, it is not the faith.

The faith of those who live their faith is a serene faith. What you long for will be given you; what you love will be yours for ever.

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

The Child, the Lord Jesus Christ . . . Word in our flesh, Wisdom in infancy, Power in weakness, and in true Man, the Lord of Majesty.

The devil is always discovering something novel against the truth.

In the beginning Man created God and in the image of Man created he him.

Work is an instrument through which you bring yourself to fulfillment

The reality and the deception are the ‘perceptions’ as of colors- say of black and white in this multicolored world.

War - hard apprenticeship of freedom.

Conversion comes as we live pure and virtuous lives and enjoy the companionship of the Holy Ghost.

My imagination is more tweaked by imagining the lives of the people who were there before us. I don't need to give myself the willies. I'm quite good at that - I can freak myself out wherever I am.

I think if somebody does something stupid, it's okay to make fun of them, but [celebrities] have also gotten very conscious about social media, kind of like the Catholic Church in the 1500s.

Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

Basketball, a game which won't be fit for people until they set the basket umbilicus-high and return the giraffes to the zoo.

I've learned a valuable opinion does not tell you what to think, it illuminates what you should consider.