Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

There is a lot of difference between tempting and leading into error. God tempts but does not lead into error. To tempt is to provide opportunities for us to do certain things if we do not love God, but putting us under no necessity to do so. To lead into error is to compel a man necessarily to conclude and follow a falsehood.

Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.

All men naturally hate each other. We have used concupiscence as best we can to make it serve the common good, but this is mere sham and a false image of charity, for essentially it is just hate.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

Men blaspheme what they do not know.