Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

The Christian "doctrines" are translations into our concepts and ideas of that which God has already expressed in language more adequate, namely the actual incarnation, crucifixion, and resurrection

When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind.