Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.

Flies are so mighty that they win battles, paralyse our minds, eat up our bodies.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

We like to be deceived.

If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.

I can approve of those only who seek in tears for happiness.

The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.