What are our natural principles but principles of custom?

Do little things as if they were great, because of the majesty of the Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in thee.

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal

Those whom we call ancient were really new in all things, and properly constituted the infancy of mankind.

Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.