God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

For it is better to suffer a little want than to have too much.

A person can do other things against his will, but belief is possible only in one who is willing.

Blessed is he who devotes his life to great and noble ends, and who forms his well-considered plans with deliberate wisdom.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Lord, who art always the same, give that I know myself, give that I know Thee.

The bread that you see on the altar is the Body of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word. The chalice, or better what is contained in the chalice, is the Blood of Christ as soon as it is sanctified by God's word