The sky and the earth and the waters and the things that are in them, the fishes, and the birds and the trees are not evil. All these are good; it is evil men who make this evil world.

What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith.

Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven.

One can't reach the Truth but through Love.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you.