When one's function is to teach the loftiest wisdom, it is difficult to resist the temptation to believe that until you have spoken, nothing has been said.

The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

It has never been recommended to confuse "loving" with "seeking to please"… ...Salome pleased Herod's guests; I can hardly believe she was burning with love for them. As for poor John the Baptist... ...she certainly did not envelop him in her love.

It is impossible for a Christian to be a relativist.

For to love is to give what one is, his very being, in the most absolute, the most brazenly metaphysical, the least phenomenalizable sense of this word.

In point of fact, Western philosophy has never set itself free of Christianity: wherever Christianity did not have a hand in the construction of modern philosophy it served instead as a stumbling block.

To philosophize man must put his whole soul into play, in much the same manner that to run he must use his heart and lungs.

The act of philosophizing involves the character of the philosopher.

It is not possible to escape from the results of the irruption of faith into the structures of our knowledge.

The hope of the coming of a new Christian era in our civilization is to my mind a hope for a distant future, a very distant future.