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.

Men blaspheme what they do not know.

The man who knows God but does not know his own misery, becomes proud. The man who knows his own misery but does not know God, ends in despair...the knowledge of Jesus Christ constitutes the middle course because in him we find both God and our own misery. Jesus Christ is therefore a God whom we approach without pride, and before whom we humble ourselves without despair.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The sole cause of all human misery is the inability of people to sit quietly in their rooms.

How I hate this folly of not believing in the Eucharist, etc.! If the gospel be true, if Jesus Christ be God, what difficulty is there?

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.