I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available.

Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms.

If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.