Late have I loved you, O beauty ever ancient, ever new. Late have I loved you. You have called to me, and have called out, and have shattered my deafness. You have blazed forth with light and have put my blindness to flight! You have sent forth fragrance, and I have drawn in my breath, and I pant after you. I have tasted you, and I hunger and thirst after you. You have touched me, and I have burned for your peace.

For whenever unbaptized persons die confessing Christ, this confession is of the same efficacy for the remission of sins as if they were washed in the sacred font of baptism.

God is not greater if you reverence Him, but you are greater if you serve Him.

What is time? If I am not asked, I know; if I am asked, I don't.

By the fall a poison was handed to mankind through a woman [Eve], by the Redemption man was given salvation also through a woman [Mary].

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

O Lord, grant that I may do Thy will as if it were my will, so that Thou mayest do my will as if it were Thy will.