Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

Wicked sons do not have the Holy Ghost in the same way as do beloved sons, and yet they do have Baptism. So, too, heretics do not have the Church as Catholics have, even though they have Baptism.

He who has God has everything; he who has everything but God has nothing.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word