To sing is to pray twice.

What you see is the bread and the chalice; that is what your own eyes report to you. But what your faith obliges you to accept is that the bread is the body of Christ and the chalice is the blood of Christ. This has been said very briefly, which may perhaps be sufficient for faith; yet faith does not desire instruction

If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?

The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.

Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not.

I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.