Better that I find you, God, and leave the questions unanswered, than to find the answers without finding you.

No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother.

God does not expect us to submit our faith to him without reason, but the very limits of our reason make faith a necessity.

Your wisdom should be without pride.

Yet we must say something when those who say the most are saying nothing.

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Lord, thou madest us for thyself, and we can find no rest till we find rest in thee.