Two things control men's nature, instinct and experience.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.

Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.

We do not weary of eating and sleeping every day, for hunger and sleepiness recur. Without that we should weary of them. So, without the hunger for spiritual things, we weary of them. Hunger after righteousness--the eighth beatitude.

We are never in search of things, but always in search of the search.

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