There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

The measure of love is to love without measuring.

Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you."

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.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.

We made bad use of immortality, and so ended up dying; Christ made good use of mortality, so that we might end up living.

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.