He that denies any of the doctrines that Christ has delivered, to be true, denies him to be sent from God, and consequently to be the Messiah; and so ceases to be a Christian.

Curiosity in children ... is but an appetite after knowledge and therefore ought to be encouraged in them, not only as a good sign, but as the great instrument nature has provided to remove that ignorance they were born with and which, without this busy inquisitiveness, will make them dull and useless creatures.

He that in the ordinary affairs of life would admit of nothing but direct plain demonstration would be sure of nothing in this world but of perishing quickly.

I thought that I had no time for faith nor time to pray, then I saw an armless man saying his Rosary with his feet.

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.