Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.
Faith is a gift of God.
All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
To deny, to believe, and to doubt well, are to a man what the race is to a horse.
This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.