“She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to humanity immediately, but to our father and mother, to our families, to our countries. After these, to humanity.” — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
“The more a man departs from lawful authority, that is, authority normally constituted, whether by God or by the nature of things, the more… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“Just as no particular branch of knowledge is self-sufficing so all branches together are not self-sufficing without the queen of knowledge, philosophy, nor the… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“Do you want to have a humble share in perpetuating wisdom among men, in gathering up the inheritance of the ages, in formulating the… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“To upset the order of nature, and even more the order of God, who, for us, is more natural than nature itself, is to… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“Whoever expresses truth expresses God, the Word, and utters therefore a word of God.” — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
Friendship is an obstetric art; it draws out our richest and deepest resources; it unfolds the wings of our dreams and hidden indeterminate thoughts;… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“Inspiration is incompatible with selfish desire. Whoever wants something for himself sets truth aside. Such aims can only degrade work.” — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“There are antecedent passion and consequent passion, that is, passion which precedes the use of reason or faith, and so hinders it; and passion… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“Variety is precious when it expresses nature more richly by developing various aspects of it; but the variety that consists in producing cripples and… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“She [the Church] proclaims that we owe love, honour and service to God in the first place, and after God not to humanity immediately,… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“The man who is too isolated grows timid, abstracted, a little odd: He stumbles along amid realities like a sailor who has just come… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share
“Is it not strange that it should be precisely our century—a century of social science and of solidarity if ever there was one, and… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share