Often a non-Christian knows something about the earth, the heavens, and the other parts of the world, about the motions and orbits of the stars and even their sizes and distances... and this knowledge he holds with certainty from reason and experience. It is thus offensive and disgraceful for an unbeliever to hear a Christian talk nonsense about such things, claiming that what he is saying is based in Scripture. We should do all that we can to avoid such an embarrassing situation, which people see as ignorance in the Christian and laugh to scorn.

I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light.

Believe that you may understand.

Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow.

In the Mass the blood of Christ flows anew for sinners.

Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

I inquired what wickedness is, and I didn't find a substance, but a perversity of will twisted away from the highest substance - You, O God - towards inferior things, rejecting its own inner life and swelling with external matters.