Whoever crosses this barrier, not from vice, but from irresistible passion, because he cannot conquer the impulse to create a family and to have a companion, fails indubitably towards the laws of the Church, but he does not disobey God.

I fear the approach of death; many nights I doubt and tremble like a child.

But I have served God in my own way.

In former times I would have served Him with my sword, fighting against the heretics.

Now I am His priest and do battle for Him whenever I see the impiety of the age curtailing anything of His glory.