Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

We are so presumptuous that we should like to be known all over the world, even by people who will only come when we are no more. Such is our vanity that the good opinion of half a dozen of the people around us gives us pleasure and satisfaction.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

I cannot forgive Descartes. In all his philosophy he would have been quite willing to dispense with God. But he had to make Him give a fillip to set the world in motion; beyond this, he has no further need of God.

Too much and too little wine. Give him none, he cannot find truth; give him too much, the same.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.