Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

If we dreamed the same thing every night, it would affect us much as the objects we see every day. And if a common workman were sure to dream every night for twelve hours that he was a king, I believe he would be almost as happy as a king who should dream every night for twelve hours on end that he was a common workman.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

True eloquence scorns eloquence.