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

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.

It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.

...for the truth is always older than all the opinions men have held regarding it; and one should be ignoring the nature of truth if we imagined that the truth began at the time it came to be known.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.