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.

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.

Cruelty to animals is as if humans did not love God.

Man is emphatically self-made.

Faith ventures and hazards . . . counting the costs and delighting in the sacrifice.

We must make up our minds to be ignorant of much, if we would know anything.

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