Since beings desire to exist, because to exist is a good thing: they desire the One without which they cannot exist.

All we know of the truth is that the absolute truth, such as it is, is beyond our reach.

Divinity is in all things in such a way that all things are in divinity.

God says to man: 'Be thou thyself, and I shall be thine.'

All things are in the intended endpoint, and this mode of being is called will or desire.

In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them.

Love is subsequent to knowledge and to the thing known, for nothing unknown is loved.

There will be a machina mundi whose centre, so to speak, is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere, for God is its circumference and centre and He is everywhere and nowhere.

In every science certain things must be accepted as first principles if the subject matter is to be understood; and these first postulates rest upon faith.

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

With the senses man measures perceptible things, with the intellect he measures intelligible things, and he attains unto supra-intelligible things transcendently.

Focus on miracles brings selfishness.

There are times when you just have to show people that you're all in.

All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

I was walking an average of about two and a half miles a day, which is still more than most Americans. Most Americans don't even walk that.

It is unacceptable that more than 1 billion people are hungry every day while another billion are obese.

Everybody is designing magic iPhone apps that do things that are really, really beautiful, but a really important thing about magic is that the gimmick has to be ugly.

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

No big modern war has been won without preponderant sea power; and, conversely, very few rebellions of maritime provinces have succeeded without acquiring sea power.

Something inside of me just said 'Hey, wait a minute, I want to beat him,' and I just took off.

It is the very nature of grace to make a man strive to be most eminent in that particular grace which is most opposed to his bosom sin.