If he exalts himself, I humble him. If he humbles himself, I exalt him. And I go on contradicting him Until he understands That he is a monster that passes all understanding.

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist.

Amusement that is excessive and followed only for its own sake, allures and deceives us.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.