It has pleased God that divine verities should not enter the heart through the understanding, but the understanding through the heart.

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Religion is so great a thing that it is right that those who will not take the trouble to seek it if it be obscure, should be deprived of it.

Vanity is but the surface.

We know then the existence and nature of the finite, because we also are finite and have extension. We know the existence of the infinite and are ignorant of its nature, because it has extension like us, but not limits like us. But we know neither the existence nor the nature of God, because he has neither extension nor limits.

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ.

Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.