Christ was born of a woman without the man.

Where love is, what can be wanting? Where it is not, what can possibly be profitable?

We are and we know we are and we love to be it and know it.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

The verdict of the world is conclusive.

Our Lord reserved to Himself certain things which He would do in due time in a manner outside the course and order of nature, so that they would wonder and be astonished at seeing not great but unusual things, who are unmoved by things daily seen. For the government of the world is a greater miracle than feeding five thousand men from five loaves; yet at the former no one wonders, the latter astonishes all men: not as a greater wonder, but as a rarer.

We take for granted the slow miracle whereby water in the irrigation of a vineyard becomes wine. It is only when Christ turns water into wine, in a quick motion, as it were, that we stand amazed.