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

If a man loves a woman for her beauty, does he love her? No; for the smallpox, which destroys her beauty without killing her, causes his love to cease. And if any one loves me for my judgment or my memory, does he really love me? No; for I can lose these qualities without ceasing to be.

I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

There is nothing so insupportable to man as to be in entire repose, without passion, occupation, amusement, or application. Then it is that he feels his own nothingness, isolation, insignificance, dependent nature, powerless, emptiness. Immediately there issue from his soul ennui, sadness, chagrin, vexation, despair.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.