Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.

"Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

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

Virginity is not honored simply because it is virginity, but because it is consecrated of God.

Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider.

Far be it from us to doubt that all number is known to Him 'Whose understanding is infinite' (Ps. 147:5). The infinity of number, though there be no numbering of infinite numbers, is yet not incomprehensible by Him Whose understanding is infinite. And thus, if everything which is comprehended is defined or made finite by the comprehension of him who knows it, then all infinity is in some ineffable way made finite to God, for it is comprehensible by His knowledge.