However vast a man's spiritual resources, he is capable of but one great passion.
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.
Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we love can them. The saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.
Opinion is, as it were, the queen of the world, but force is its tyrant.
There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.