Charity is universal and its obligation is always absolute. 

What mysterious power is it that a mother has over a son that, when he confesses his guilt, she strives to minimize it, even when it shocks her heart…. 

Belief in God and belief in his Church stand on the same kind of foundation.

There is an inward world into which they enter who come near to Christ, though to men in general they seem the same as before. 

If you don't have love for one another, then how can you love Christ?

I am going to assert what some persons will not hesitate to call a great paradox; but which, nevertheless, I consider to be most true... 

Strangely, it is in this helplessness that we come upon the beginning of joy.

The English priest John Colet was influenced by his friends Erasmus and Saint Thomas More. 

Every writer is familiar with the word "obelism," which refers to an editor's abbreviations in the margins indicating corrections to be made.

It is not in arguing or lecturing that I can make them know who God is for us.