The angels surround and help the priest when he is celebrating Mass.

Let us, on both sides, lay aside all arrogance. Let us not, on either side, claim that we have already discovered the truth. Let us seek it together as something which is known to neither of us. For then only may we seek it, lovingly and tranquilly, if there be no bold presumption that it is already discovered and possessed.

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

He indeed possesses the Character imposed on him, but he wanders as a renegade.

What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.

And so, lastly, does the very name of "Catholic", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house.

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.