Let us not go faster than God. It is our emptiness and our thirst that He needs, not our plentitude.
Jacques MaritainAuthority and power are two different things: power is the force by means of which you can oblige others to obey you. Authority is the right to direct and command, to be listened to or obeyed by others. Authority requests power. Power without authority is tyranny.
Jacques MaritainThe great and admirable strength of America consists in this, that America is truly the American people.
Jacques MaritainSince science's competence extends to observable and measurable phenomena, not to the inner being of things, and to the means, not to the ends of human life, it would be nonsense to expect that the progress of science will provide men with a new type of metaphysics, ethics, or religion.
Jacques Maritain