Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

The sole purpose of life is to gain merit for life in eternity.

Charity is the root of all good works.

"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.

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

Christ held Himself in His hands when He gave His Body to His disciples saying: 'This is My Body.' No one partakes of this Flesh before he has adored it.