Christianity founds hospitals and atheists are cured in them, never knowing they owe their cure to Christ.

We shall say without hesitation that the atheist who is moved by love is moved by the Spirit of God; an atheist who lives by love is saved by his faith in the God whose existence (under that name) he denies.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.

Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.

Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.

The first ingredient in conversation is truth, the next good sense, the third good humor, and the fourth wit.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.