The ministry is a weight from which even an angel might shrink

For when God said, "Let there be light, and there was light," if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God.

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

If you don't believe it you won't understand it.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

The love of our neighbor hath its bounds in each man's love of himself.

For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next.