Virtue is nothing without the trial of temptation, for there is no conflict without an enemy, no victory without strife.
Pope Leo IBeyond our grasp, He chose to come within our grasp. Existing before time began, He began to exist at a moment in time.
Pope Leo IAnd each one is a partaker of this spiritual origin in regeneration; and to every one when he is re-born, the water of baptism is like the Virgin's womb; for the same Holy Spirit fills the font, Who filled the Virgin, that the sin, which that sacred conception overthrew, may be taken away by this mystical washing.
Pope Leo I