Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

Death itself is less painful when it comes upon us unawares than the bare contemplation of it, even when danger is far distant.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.