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

The Fall is an offense to human reason, but once accepted, it makes perfect sense of the human condition.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Justice and truth are two such subtle points, that our tools are too blunt to touch them accurately.

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

When we see a natural style, we are astonished and charmed; for we expected to see an author, and we find a person.