Help with Quote from Saint on Eucharist

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There is a saint who said something along the lines that most food we eat is changed by us, but the Eucharist changes us from within. Of course, the saint said it much more eloquently, but can someone give me the exact quote and name of the saint?
 
This was said by St. Justin Martyr:

“We call this food Eucharist; and no one else is permitted to partake of it, except one who believes our teaching to be true… For not as common bread nor common drink do we receive these; but since Jesus Christ our Savior was made incarnate by the word of God and had both flesh and blood for our salvation, so too, as we have been taught, the food which has been made into the Eucharist by the Eucharistic prayer set down by Him, and by the change of which our blood and flesh is nourished, is both the flesh and the blood of that incarnated Jesus”
 
Thank you! I also just found this from Saint Augustine.

"I am the food of full-grown men. Grow and you shall feed on me. But you shall not change me into your own substance, as you do with the food of your body. Instead you shall be changed into me."
 
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What work of Augustine’s was that from? I’d like to read more on that, thanks. 🙂
 
Along those same lines, St. Leo the Great said this:

“For the reception of Christ’s Body and Blood does nothing less than transform us into that which we consume, and henceforth we bear in soul and body Him in whose fellowship we died, were buried, and are risen again.”

That was quoted by Bl. John XXIII in his encyclical Aeterna Dei Sapientia.
 
Again another Saint on the Eucharist:

St. Bonaventure: "There is no difficulty over Christ’s being present in the sacrament as in a sign; the great difficulty is in the fact that He is really in the sacrament, as He is in heaven. And so believing this is especially meritorious. "
 
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