"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.

This very moment I may, if I desire, become the friend of God.

What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

It is said that there is no salvation outside the Church. Who denies this? And therefore whatever things of the Church are had outside the Church do not avail unto salvation.

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me.

Symbols are powerful because they are the visible signs of invisible realities.