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.

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

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.

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

No one is strong in his own strength, but he is safe by the grace and mercy of God.

In proportion to the size of the vessel of faith, brought by us to the Lord, is the measure we draw out of His overflowing grace.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

Custom is often only the antiquity of error.

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.

For the helmsman is recognized in the tempest; in the warfare the soldier is proved.

Anything is possible. You can be told that you have a 90-percent chance or a 50-percent chance or a 1-percent chance, but you have to believe, and you have to fight.

The aim of education is the knowledge, not of facts, but of values.

The land was then covered with morasses and forests, which spread to a boundless extent, whenever man has ceased to exercise his dominion over the earth.

We all want to know what went wrong, even when there isn't really an answer to that question.

Life is what's going on while your making other plans.

What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.

Faith alone is the sun of life.

It is not the weight of the future or the past that is pressing upon you, but ever that of the present alone. Even this burden, too, can be lessened if you confine it strictly to its own limits.

Think how much better it is to criticize conventional customs if you yourself live up to them, scrupulously.

And I can see Russia from my house.