Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Do you wish to be free? Then above all things, love God, love your neighbor, love one another, love the common weal; then you will have true liberty.

The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.

The whole world knows that His glory has not been spread by force and weapons, but by poor fishermen.

I am the hailstorm that shall break the heads of those who do not take shelter.

Whoever excommunicates me, excommunicates God.

It would be good for religion if many books that seem useful were destroyed. When there were not so many books and not so many arguments and disputes, religion grew more quickly than it has since.

If there be no enemy, no fight; if do fight, no victory; if no victory, no crown.

Don't be ashamed to learn from others.

God is the best helper, but He loves to be helped. Be earnest in prayer, but do not neglect human means. You must help yourself in all manner of ways, and then the Lord will be with you.

It came from God, and so is Christ true, and Christ is thy God, who is in heaven and awaits thee.

Where love rules there is no will to power and where power predominates love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

Like any good tree that one would hope to grow, we must set our roots deep into the ground so that what is real will prosper in the Light of Love.

We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

Holy people glory, not in their holiness, but in Christ's cross; for the holiest saint is never more than a justified sinner and never sees himself in any other way.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

I have to save the parts of my soul that are left for the good roles and the true love.

With photography, I like to create a fiction out of reality. I try and do this by taking society's natural prejudice and giving this a twist.

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

This is the mission of every Christian: lumina pandit - to spread the light and to tell the world of God's love.

Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know that in skilled hands it is fearsome.