There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind.

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

For after all what is man in nature? A nothing in relation to infinity, all in relation to nothing, a central point between nothing and all and infinitely far from understanding either. The ends of things and their beginnings are impregnably concealed from him in an impenetrable secret. He is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness out of which he was drawn and the infinite in which he is engulfed.

One must know oneself. If this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a rule of life and there is nothing better.

All the miseries of mankind come from one thing, not knowing how to remain alone.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.