For even if the Word in His immeasurable essence united with the nature of man into one person, we do not imagine that He was confined therein. Here is something marvellous: the Son of God descended from heaven in such a way that, without leaving heaven, He willed to be borne in the virgin's womb, to go about the earth, and to hang upon the cross; yet He continuously filled the world even as He had done from the beginning.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

If people mean that man has in himself the power to work in partnership with God's grace they are most wretchedly deluding themselves.

We must make the invisible kingdom visible in our midst.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

He who has learned to look to God in everything he does is at the same time diverted from all vain thoughts.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.