Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.