Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

The last thing we decide in writing a book is what to put first.

That which makes us go so far for love is that we never think that we might have need of anything besides that which we love.

No religion except ours has taught that man is born in sin; none of the philosophical sects has admitted it; none therefore has spoken the truth