We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.
Saint AugustineThe soul is "torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity.
Saint AugustineThe entire most beautiful order of things that are very good, when their measures have been accomplished, is to pass away.
Saint AugustineMoreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ.
Saint Augustine