Fr. John Clark

“The power of being and of its ineliminable qualities is stronger than any human nihilism that would liquidate them, and with them, the being in which they inhere.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Theo-Logic: Theological Logical Theory

“Boni vero et boni, si perfecti sunt, inter se pugnare non possunt.

Truly the good and the good, if they are perfect, cannot strive among themselves.”
― Augustine of Hippo, City of God

“This universal, which is at one and the same time the true and the good, cannot be honored as the true—we cannot enter into intimate union with it, discover its traces, and yield ourselves to its mighty sway—unless we recognize it and serve it equally as the good.”
― A. G. Sertillanges O.P., The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

“There is no greater invitation to love than to anticipate in loving.

Nulla est enim major ad amorem invitatio quam praevenire amando.”
― Augustine of Hippo, Instructing Beginners in Faith