The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety.

Those we call the ancients were really new in everything.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

I know whom I have believed.