Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.
The ears of the common people are holier than the hearts of the priests.
It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.
Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.
It is very difficult to get up resentment towards persons whom one has never seen.
Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ.