All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.
It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
Our own interests are still an exquisite means for dazzling our eyes agreeably.
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.
It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.