Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so long had I but the leisure to make it shorter.

What a chimera then is man. What a novelty! What a monster... what a contradiction, what a prodigy

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.

Unless we love the truth we cannot know it.

Piety is different from superstition. To carry piety to the extent of superstition is to destroy it. The heretics reproach us with this superstitious submission. It is doing what they reproach us with.