Put the Protestant flint and the Catholic steel together, and you will kindle a fire that will burn all around the world.

I find my data first in myself, not first in the poets. For if I did not find it in myself, I would not be able to find it in the poets.

The more we realize we are loved, the more ashamed we are not to love back. The more we sin as a violation of love, not just of law, the more powerful a motive we will have to overcome it. For sin is attractive to us (otherwise we would never be attracted to it) and can be cast out only by something more attractive.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.

Protestants believe that the sacraments are like ladders that God gave to us by which we can climb up to Him. Catholics believe that they are like ladders that God gave to Himself by which He climbs down to us.

Do you know any better way to make saints than to be one yourself?

To many moderns, [love] is something that is only a part of us rather than something of which we are a part.