Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end.

Silence is the greatest persecution; never do the saints keep themselves silent.

We feel neither extreme heat nor extreme cold; qualities that are in excess are so much at variance with our feelings that they are impalpable: we do not feel them, though we suffer from their effects.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.