To understand is to forgive.
Our natures lie in motion, without which we die.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false.
A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.
When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.