The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

Wonder is the desire of knowledge.

Devotion is a certain act of the will by which man gives himself promptly to divine service.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

Do not wish to jump immediately from the streams to the sea, because one has to go through easier things to the more difficult.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.