“Only because a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above; only because God is not temporal can he enter into time.”

“Only God may be adored, because only God is unlimited goodness, truth, and beauty, and thus only God deserves unlimited love.”

“We are all insane. That is what original sin means. Sin is insanity. It is preferring finite joy to infinite joy, creatures to the Creator, an unhappy, Godless self to a happy, God-filled self Only God can save us from this disease. That is what the name "Jesus" means: 'God saves'.”

“Everything smaller than Heaven bores us because only Heaven is bigger than our hearts.”

“We can't avoid reasoning; we can only avoid doing it well.”

“Conscience is thus explained only as the voice of God in the soul.”

“God gives us not only the truth but also the ability to believe it; not only the new thing to see but also the new eye to see it with.”