Down in adoration falling, Lo! the sacred Host we hail; Lo! o’er ancient forms departing, Newer rites of grace prevail; Faith for all defects supplying, Where the feeble senses fail.
To be united to God in unity of person was not fitting to human flesh, according to its natural endowments, since it was above his dignity; nevertheless, it was fitting that God, by reason of his infinite goodness, should unite it to himself for human salvation.
The meaning of what is said is according to the motive for saying it: because things are not subject to speech, but speech to things. Therefore we should take account of the motive of the lawgiver, rather than of his very words.
Gods are called many by the error of some who worshipped many deities, thinking as they did the planets and other stars were gods, and also the separate parts of the world.
It is a sin to regard the fact that God cannot do the impossible as a limitation on his powers.
The soul is perfected by knowledge and virtue.
Faith does not quench desire, but inflames it.
There is no leisure about politics.
For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us.
The splendor of a soul in grace is so seductive that it surpasses the beauty of all created things.
In the end, we know God as unknown.
It would seem that zeal is not an effect of love. For zeal is a beginning of contention.
He who is dying of hunger must be fed rather than taught.
No man truly has joy unless he lives in love.
As mariners are guided into port by the shining of a star, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary.
It would be superfluous to receive by faith, things that can be known by natural reason.
God answered the prayers of animals.
Art is right reason in the doing of work.
The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.
He who is drawn to something desirable does not desire to have it as a thought but as a thing.