Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

The world is content with setting right the surface of things.

All that is good, all that is true, all that is beautiful, all that is beneficent, be it great or small, be it perfect or fragmentary, natural as well as supernatural, moral as well as material, comes from God.

It is seldom we have the heart to throw ourselves, if I may so speak, on the Divine Arm; we dare not trust ourselves on the waters, though Christ bids us. We have not St. Peter's love to ask leave to come to him upon the sea. When we once are filled with that heavenly charity, we can do all things, because we attempt all things - for to attempt is to do.

Reason is God's gift, but so are the passions. Reason is as guilty as passion.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.