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

St. Augustine teaches us that there is in each man a Serpent, an Eve, and an Adam. Our senses and natural propensities are the Serpent; the excitable desire is the Eve; and reason is the Adam. Our nature tempts us perpetually; criminal desire is often excited; but sin is not completed till reason consents.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.

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

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.

It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.