Let us therefore yield ourselves and bow to the authority of the Holy Scriptures, which can neither err nor deceive.

To be under pressure is inescapable. Pressure takes place through all the world; war, siege, the worries of state. We all know men who grumble under these pressures and complain. They are cowards. They lack splendour. But there is another sort of man who is under the same pressure but does not complain, for it is the friction which polishes him. It is the pressure which refines and makes him noble

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

God's love is unconditional. Be sure that yours is too!

Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls.

Even the straws under my knees shout to distract me from prayer

...If humility does not precede all that we do, our efforts are fruitless.