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?

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Whatever a man prefers to God, that he makes a god to himself.

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.

If a murder is committed privately it is considered a crime. But if it happens with the authority of the state, they call it courage.

When we pray to God with entire assurance, it is Himself who has given us the spirit of prayer.

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.