I despise the proper constructions and cases, because I think it very unfitting that the words of the celestial oracle should be restricted by the rules of Donatus [a well-known grammarian].
Pope Gregory IObedience is the only virtue that plants the other virtues in the heart and preserves them after they have been planted.
Pope Gregory IIf we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.
Pope Gregory I