[W]e, being who and what we are, cannot know unless we are taught by that which is other than we, and that means by the Spirit of God, albeit in diverse mediations. Though nature is relatively passive under our enquiry… it remains true that knowled...
My prayers, my tears, my wishes, fears, and lamentations, were witnessed by myself and heaven alone. When we are harassed by sorrows or anxieties, or long oppressed by any powerful feelings which we must keep to ourselves, for which we can obtain and...
Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from those inhabited and experienced by all other humans. . . If reality differs from person to person, can we speak of reality singular, or shouldn't we really be talking abou...
He who rides upon an ass cannot help but smell its gas!
He who cannot pray at home will celebrate mass somewhere else.
A light is still a light -- even though the blind man cannot see it.
Man cannot stir one inch without the push of heaven's finger.
Though the emperor be rich, he cannot buy one extra year.
One father can feed seven children, but seven children cannot feed one father.
Let him make use of instinct who cannot make use of reason.
What has been blown away, cannot be found again.
He who cannot light a fire knows nothing about love.
Even God cannot make two mountains without a valley in between.
A hand that has been chopped off cannot steal any more.
Unless you enter the tiger's den you cannot take the cubs.
Once you've cut the bread, you cannot put it together again.
One cannot make a fur coat from a "Thank you."
He who knows nothing is as blind as him who cannot see.
However early you get up you cannot hasten the dawn.
A sheep cannot bleat in two different places at the same time.
You cannot hold your head high with your hand out.
