Christ was born of a woman without the man.

What am I then, my God? What is my nature? A life varied, multifaceted and truly immense.

Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility.

It is this one Spirit who makes it possible for an infant to be regenerated . . . when that infant is brought to baptism; and it is through this one Spirit that the infant so presented is reborn. For it is not written, 'Unless a man be born again by the will of his parents' or 'by the faith of those presenting him or ministering to him,' but, 'Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Spirit.' The water, therefore, manifesting exteriorly the sacrament of grace, and the Spirit effecting interiorly the benefit of grace, both regenerate in one Christ that man who was generated in Adam.

Temperance is a disposition that restrains our desires for things which it is base to desire.

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

Unhappy is the soul enslaved by the love of anything that is mortal.