God will not suffer man to have a knowledge of things to come; for if he had prescience of his prosperity, he would be careless; and if understanding of his adversity, he would be despairing and senseless

He cannot have God for his Father who will not have the Church for his mother.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

For, were it not good that evil things should also exist, the omnipotent God would almost certainly not allow evil to be, since beyond doubt it is just as easy for Him not to allow what He does not will, as for Him to do what He will.

Despise not yourselves, ye women; the Son of God was born of a woman