Learn, O saints! From what has been said, to sit loose to all your worldly comforts; and stand ready prepared to part with everything, when God shall require it at your hand.

And there is still the more occasion for such an alarm, because worldly-mindedness so easily and craftily besets the hearts of men.

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proven innocent

Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral

What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings