Kind words produce their own image in men's souls; and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used.

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

Let us now speak according to natural lights. If there is a God, He is infinitely incomprehensible. . . . We are then incapable of knowing of either what He is or if He is. . . .

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

When some passion or effect is described in a natural style, we find within ourselves the truth of what we hear, without knowing it was there.

The heart has its order, the mind has its own, which uses principles and demonstrations. The heart has a different one. We do not prove that we ought to be loved by setting out in order the causes of love; that would be absurd.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.