Few men speak humbly of humility, chastely of chastity, skeptically of skepticism.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.
We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.
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.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.