Faith is a sounder guide than reason. Reason can only go so far, but faith has no limits.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

All men seek happiness. There are no exceptions.... This is the motive of every act of every man, including those who go and hang themselves.

It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

The finite is annihilated in the presence of the infinite, and becomes a pure nothing. So our spirit before God, so our justice before divine justice.

The only shame is to have none.