They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

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

What can be hoped for which is not believed?

For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people.

The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.

The one who is our very Life descended into our world, and bore our death, and slew it with the abundance of His own life. Thundering, He called out to us to return to Him in heaven.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.