Believe in order to Understand and Understand in order to Believe

How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Nothing so clearly distinguishes a spiritual man as his treatment of an erring brother.

The Sacraments are the salvation of those who use them rightly, and the damnation of those who misuse them.

We are too weak to discover the truth by reason alone

What is perfection in love? Love your enemies in such a way that you would desire to make them your brothers ... For so did He love, Who hanging on the Cross, said "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." (Luke 23:34)