We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as aut….

If a man wants to be always in God's company, he must pray regularly and read regularly. When we pray, we talk to God; when we read, God talks to us..

Teaching unsupported by grace may enter our ears, but it never reaches the heart. When God's grace does touch our innermost minds to bring understand….

Tshe suffering of adversity does not degrade you but exalts you. Human tribulation teaches you; it does not destroy you. The more we are afflicted in….

All spiritual growth comes from reading and reflection. By reading we learn what we did not know; by reflection we retain what we have learned. The c….

Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy..

Mary means enlightener, because She brought forth the Light of the world. In the Syriac tongue, Mary signifies Lady..

Baptism is not the work of man but of Christ, and this sacrament is so holy that it would not be defiled, even if the minister were a murderer..

In the active life all the vices are first of all to be removed by the practice of good works, so that in the contemplative life a man may, with now ….

The more you devote yourself to study of the sacred utterances, the richer will be your understanding of them, just as the more the soil is tilled, t….

Prayer purifies us, reading instructs us. Both are good when both are possible. Otherwise, prayer is better than reading..

Number is divided into even and odd. Even number is divided into the following: evenly even, evenly uneven, and unevenly uneven. Odd number is divide….

The name of medicine is thought to have been given from 'moderation', modus, that is, from a due proportion, which advises that things be done not to….

Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent; for they introd….

Tolle numerum omnibus rebus et omnia pereunt.Take from all things their number and all shall perish..

Nothing exists without music, for the universe itself is said to have been framed by a kind of harmony of sounds, and the heaven itself revolves unde….

War with vices, but peace with individuals..

It is agreed that all sound which is the material of music is of three sorts. First is harmonica, which consists of vocal music; second is organica, ….