Patristic Quote of the Day

The Conqueror's victory would have profited us nothing if the battle had been fought outside our human condition. Bt through this wonderful blending the mystery of the new birth shone upon us, so that through the same Spirit by whom Christ was conceived and brought forth we too might be born again in a spiritual birth; and in consequence the evangelist declares the faithful to have been born not of blood, nor of the desire of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. - St. Leo the Great, A Letter (Christian Prayer, p. 1951)