You must be patient, you must wait for the eye of the soul to be formed in you. Religious truth is reached, not by reasoning, but by an inward perception. Anyone can reason; only disciplined, educated, formed minds can perceive.

Prayer is to the spiritual life what the beating of the pulse and the drawing of the breath are to the life of the body.

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

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

How can we feel our need of His help, or our dependence on Him, or our debt to Him, or the nature of His gift to us, unless we know ourselves.... This is why many in this age (and in every age) become infidels, heretics, schismatics, disloyal despisers of the Church.... They have never had experience of His power and love, because they have never known their own weakness and need.

It is God himself who can be discovered in the beauty of sensible things.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless