Quotes from Etienne Gilson

Faith comes to intelligence as a light that overflows it with joy and inspires it with a certitude that does away with question.

To minds tormented by the divine thirst, it is useless to offer the most certain knowledge of the laws of numbers and the arrangement of the universe.

Let us ... quietly accept our times, with the firm conviction that just as much good can be done today as at any time in the past, provided only that we have the will and the way to do it.