Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How great? Guess.

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.