The customs of God's people and the institutions of our ancestors are to be considered as laws. And those who throw contempt on the customs of the Church ought to be punished as those who disobey the law of God.

God's faithful servant has no desire for people to say or to give to him, or what he likes to hear or see, for his first and greatest aim is to hear what is most pleasing to God.

You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.

When people truly open their minds, and contemplate the way in which the universe is ordered and governed, they are amazed-overwhelmed by a sense of the miraculous. When people contemplate with open minds the germination of a single seed, they are equally overwhelmed-yet numerous babies are born every day, and no-one marvels. If only people opened their minds, they would see that the birth of a baby, in which a new life is created, is a greater miracle than restoring life.

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

Let the Lord your God be your hope – seek for nothing else from him, but let him himself be your hope. There are people who hope from him riches or perishable and transitory honours, in short they hope to get from God things which are not God himself.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

Let us sing a new song, not with our lips, but with our lives.

Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. . . . And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.

Playing with France is the challenge of playing with one of the national teams with the greatest football histories.

I understand that you always want to improve.

I remember that in 2017, when we won everything, we started the pre-season badly, with defeats.

Our objective is to win - always to win.

Having the ball means creating chances and scoring goals.

If I know where I want to play before I receive the ball, it's easier. It's more fluid.

Zidane has tried to get me to improve. Anticipating, reading the play, putting myself in the defensive balance, I know how to do all this. So he expects the same finesse in an attacking sense.

I think I felt ready and I really wanted to go to Real Madrid. Some are ready and others aren't. I thought about it carefully and I made the right decision.

There are some things you gain with experience, but age isn't important to me.

I hope to meet expectations. To achieve this, I need to keep working hard and hopefully things will go my way.

We do a team sport. Individually, you're worthless!

You can be a huge player, if you play alone, the team loses.

All the teams that win a big trophy, it is thanks to the collective, when each one takes pleasure to share with the others. This is how it works.

Basically, I played football to share with others, to excel together, to achieve a goal. After, we all have our ego, our pride and our personality. But all alone, in football, it does not work.

In terms of pressure, El Clasico is unique, but also a match against PSG is a stimulating and exciting clash.

I try to transmit calmness and motivation to my team-mates.

PSG were interested in signing me, but we never entered negotiations.

In my position you talk about a mature player being around 28 and it is normal that you improve.

Every season is a challenge and now I am a more complete player. I have learned at the highest level.

In every training session, I learn.

I consider myself to be from Madrid because I arrived very young, but I do not forget my years in Lens - of which I am also proud.

I want to continue to be a first-team regular here at Madrid. That is my long-term goal.

Ronaldo is a bon vivant, he is friendly, he always has something to help you progress. He wants to be the best around. It infuriates him when he loses, he cannot stand it. It's true that sometimes, in the dressing room, it's fun to lose just to make him mad!

You have to be humble and learn from the players around you.

It's impressive to be compared with Hierro.

When you are at Real, it's a challenge every day. I'm like that, I need these high goals to keep moving forward.

It's not a fault in football to be ambitious, far from it.

I try to give the squad my peace of mind, my experience of big competitions and to be myself.

It would be wonderful to spend my whole career at Madrid. But my early days taught me to enjoy every moment because everything can change very quickly - I saw that with Euro 2016.