I once laboured hard for the free will of man, until the grace of God at length overcame me.

It was not the visible sun, but its invisible Creator who consecrated this day for us, when the Virgin Mother, fertile of womb and integral in her virginity, brought him forth, made visible for us, by whom, when he was invisible, she too was created. A Virgin conceiving, a Virgin bearing, a Virgin pregnant, a Virgin bringing forth, a Virgin perpetual. Why do you wonder at this, O man?

Let necessity, and not your will, slay the enemy who fights against you.

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

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness.