Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

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

The Church limits her sacramental services to the faithful. Christ gave Himself upon the cross a ransom for all.

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything bears this mark.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.