What is grace? I know until you ask me; when you ask me, I do not know.

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

Peace is not sought in order to provoke war, but war is waged in order to attain peace.

When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil.

Hell was made for the inquisitive.

God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.

And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?