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

God will cleanse your sins if you yourself are dissatisfied with yourself and will keep on changing until you are perfect.

A free curiosity is more effective in learning than a rigid discipline.

What do you possess if you possess not God?

I fell away from you, my God, and I went astray, too far astray from you, the support of my youth, and I became to myself a land of want.

Cyprian was not issuing a new decree but was keeping to the most solid belief of the Church in order to correct some who thought that infants ought not be baptized before the eighth day after their birth. . . . He agreed with certain of his fellow bishops that a child is able to be duly baptized as soon as he is born.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown.