One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

The parts of the universe ... all are connected with each other in such a way that I think it to be impossible to understand any one without the whole.

When everyone is moving towards depravity, no one seems to be moving, but if someone stops he shows up the others who are rushing on, by acting as a fixed point.

Knowledge has two extremes. The first is the pure natural ignorance in which all men find themselves at birth. The other extreme is that reached by great minds, who, having run through all that men can know, find they know nothing, and come back again to that same natural ignorance from which they set out; this is a learned ignorance which is conscious of itself.

Faith is a gift of God.

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.