The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me; and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
You cannot attain to charity except through humility.
We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone
No one reaches the kingdom of Heaven except by humility
I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it.