Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

Anger is a weed; hate is a tree

I make bold to say that it is profitable for the proud to fall, in order that they may be humbled in that for which they have exalted themselves.

Make me a captive Lord, then I shall be truly free.

A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.

O Master, make me chaste, but not yet!

Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence.