If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.

God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

What's virtue in man can't be virtue in a cat.

A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.

A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him