The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

He who made thee is made in thee. He is made in thee through whom you were made.... Give milk, O mother, to him who is our food; give milk to the bread that comes down from heaven.

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds.

The sufficiency of my merit is to know that my merit is not sufficient.

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

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

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.