It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

He who denies the existence of God, has some reason for wishing that God did not exist.

Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

You aspire to great things? Begin with the little ones.

So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you.