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

By thought I embrace the universe.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.