And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.

O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord.

Cantare amantis est ... Singing belongs to one who loves." (s. 336, 1 – PL 38, 1472).

The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.