You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions.

War should we waged without love of violence, cruelty, or enmity.

Does God proclaim Himself in the wonders of creation? No. All things proclaim Him, all things speak. Their beauty is the voice by which they announce God, by which they sing, "It is you who made me beautiful, not me myself but you.

The law detects, grace alone conquers sin.

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

Poetry is devil's wine.