You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

There is no saint without a past, no sinner without a future.

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

Christ was born of a woman without the man.

There is no remedy so powerful against the heat of concupiscence as the remembrance of our Savior's Passion. In all my difficulties I never found anything so efficacious as the wounds of Christ: In them I sleep secure; from them I derive new life.

Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.