There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

Truly it is an evil to be full of faults; but it is a still greater evil to be full of them and to be unwilling to recognize them, since that is to add the further fault of a voluntary illusion.

We must make good people wish that the Christian faith were true, and then show that it is.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.