Lord, help me to do great things as though they were little, since I do them with your power; And little things as though they were great, since I do them in your name!

However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Undoubtedly equality of goods is just; but, being unable to cause might to obey justice, men has made it just to obey might. Unable to strengthen justice, they have justified might--so that the just and the strong should unite, and there should be peace, which is the sovereign good.

I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.