Miscellanea

Well, a priori, one should expect a chaotic world which cannot be grasped by mind in any way. There in lies the weakness of the positivists and professional atheists.

It is not reasoning but neglecting to reason, and to extend conclusions to their just consequences, that I condemn as the vice of the age.

We take it for granted that the Sun, the Moon, Jupiter and the rest are exactly where they should be, and move just as they ought. But if we are content the Lord should …

There are no ordinary people. You have never met a mere mortal.

If you pity an ox or an ass going astray, will you not pity a soul going astray from God, who has lost his way and his wits, and is upon the precipice of damnation. Nay, …

What is it to know all the motions of the orbs and influences of the stars and in the meantime to be ignorant of Christ, the bright Morning Star? What is it to understand …

Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.