He who commends the nature of the soul as the supreme good, and condemns the nature of the flesh as evil, at once both carnally desires the soul, and carnally flies the flesh, because he feels thus from human vanity, not from divine truth.

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.

What the universal Church holds, not as instituted [invented] by councils but as something always held, is most correctly believed to have been handed down by apostolic authority. Since others respond for children, so that the celebration of the sacrament may be complete for them, it is certainly availing to them for their consecration, because they themselves are not able to respond.

Our rewards in heaven are a result of God's crowning His own gifts.

Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.

I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?

In failing to confess, Lord, I would only hide You from myself, not myself from You.