Salvation is God's way of making us real people.

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

Our life is a gymnasium of desire.... When Christians say "God," what do we wish to express? This word is all that we yearn for."

If But for the Mercy of my Lord, that my paradise becomes a woman's hell.

The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself.

Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow.

We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist.