Feet were made, not given for dancing, but to walk modestly, not to leap impudently like camels.

It is not the man who is responsible for the offerings as they become Christ's Body and Blood; it is Christ Himself who was crucified for us. The standing figure belongs to the priest who speaks these words. The power and the grace belong to God. 'This is My Body,' he says. And these words transform the offerings.

God asks little, but He gives much.

Whether or not our prayer is heard depends not on the number of our words, but on the fervor of our souls.

I exhort and entreat you all, disregard what this man and that man thinks about these things, and inquire from the Scriptures all these things.

God does not forsake you. It is because he wishes to increase your glory that oftentimes he permits you to fall sick. Keep up your courage so that you may also hear him say: Do you think I have dealt with you otherwise than that you may be shown to be just?

Poor human reason, when it trusts in itself, substitutes the strangest absurdities for the highest divine concepts