By the help of the water of new birth, the stain of former years had been washed away, and a light from above, serene and pure, had been infused into my reconciled heart, — after that, by the agency of the Spirit breathed from heaven, a second birth had restored me to a new man.

The spouse of Christ cannot be defiled; she is uncorrupted and chaste.

There is one God and one Christ, and one Church, and one chair founded on Peter by the word of the Lord. It is not possible to set up another altar or for there to be another priesthood besides that one altar and that one priesthood. Whoever has gathered elsewhere is scattering.

Since the baptismal rebirth takes place only with the one Bride of Christ, where could he be born who is not a son of the Church?

And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call it "our Bread," because Christ is The Bread of those who are in union with His Body. And we ask that this Bread should be given to us daily, that we who are in Christ, and daily receive The Eucharist for the Food of Salvation, may not by the interposition of some heinous sin...be separated from Christ's Body.

The beard must not be plucked. Ye shall not deface the figure of your beard.

May all Christians be found worthy of either the pure white crown of a holy life or the royal red crown of martyrdom.