If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

All err the more dangerously because each follows a truth. Their mistake lies not in following a falsehood but in not following another truth.

Custom creates the whole of equity, for the simple reason that it is accepted.

Those great efforts of intellect, upon which the mind sometimes touches, are such that it cannot maintain itself there. It only leaps to them, not as upon a throne, forever, but merely for an instant.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

Why God has instituted Prayer:— To communicate to his creatures the dignity of causation.