"It is impossible to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses."
Ignatius of Antioch

    "He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him"
Cyril of Alexandria

    "O sinner, be not discouraged, but have recourse to Mary in all your necessities. Call her to your assistance, for such is the divine Will that she should help in every kind of necessity."
Saint Basil

    "Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were going to die tomorrow."
Saint Augustine

    "I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so."
Saint Augustine

    "We do not sin when we adore Christ in the Eucharist; we do sin when we do not adore Christ in the Eucharist."
Saint Augustine

    "For grace is given not because we have done good works, but in order that we may be able to do them."
Saint Augustine

    "The custom of Mother Church in baptizing infants is certainly not to be scorned, nor is it to be regarded in any way as superfluous, nor is it to be believed that its tradition is anything except apostolic."
Saint Augustine

    "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?"
Saint Augustine

    "There are three ways in which sins are forgiven: in baptism, in prayer, and in the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized"
Saint Augustine

    "It is not that we keep His commandments first and that then He loves but that He loves us and then we keep His commandments. This is that grace which is revealed to the humble but hidden from the proud."
Saint Augustine

    "Mary heard God's word and kept it, and so she is blessed. She kept God's truth in her mind, a nobler thing than carrying his body in her womb."
Saint Augustine

    "As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it."
Saint Augustine

    "One does not read in the Gospel that the Lord said: "I will send you the Paraclete who will teach you about the course of the sun and moon." For He willed to make them Christians, not mathematicians."
Saint Augustine

    "The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave." Saint Augustine

    "But it isn't just a matter of faith, but of faith and works. Each is necessary. For the demons also believe - you heard the apostle - and tremble (Jas 2:19); but their believing doesn't do them any good. Faith alone is not enough, unless works too are joined to it: Faith working through love (Gal 5:6), says the apostle."
Saint Augustine

    "He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent."
Saint Augustine