This awful catastrophe is not the end but the beginning. History does not end so. It is the way its chapters open.

God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

Beauty is the brilliance of truth.

It is impossible that there should be inhabitants on the opposite side of the Earth, since no such race is recorded by Scripture among the descendants of Adam.

You say to me 'Show me your God.' I answer you, 'Everything you see in your heart that might sadden God, remove.'

In all your movements, let nothing be evident that would offend the eyes of another.