Law Describes The Way Things Would Work

Faith Transcends Reason Because Divine Truth Is Not Only Higher, But Also Wider Than The Human Mind, And The Rationalist In His Haste For Premature Simplification Always Tends To Shut His Eyes To One Aspect Of The Truth And To Seek A False Harmony Of Thought By The Sacrifice Of An Essential Element Of Reality.

Law Describes The Way Things Would Work If Men Were Angels.

Yet Humanitarianism Is Not A Purely Christian Movement Any More Than It Is A Purely Humanist One

The Intercourse Between The Mediterranean And The North Or Between The Atlantic And Central Europe Was Never Purely Economic Or Political; It Also Meant The Exchange Of Knowledge And Ideas And The Influence Of Social Institutions And Artistic And Literary Forms

The Moment That The State Came Into Conflict With The Higher Power, The Moment That It Set Itself Up As An End In Itself, It Became Identified With Augustine's Earthly City And Lost All Claims To A Higher Sanction Than The Law Of Force And Self-interest. Without Justice, What Is A Great Kingdom But A Great Robbery, Magnum Latrocinium?