The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

If we regulate our conduct according to our own convictions, we may safely disregard the praise or censure of others.

Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.

There is a God-shaped hole in the life of every man.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

We do not rest satisfied with the present.... So imprudent we are that we wander in the times which are not ours and do not thinkof the only one which belongs to us; and so idle are we that we dream of those times which are no more and thoughtlessly overlook that which alone exists. For the present is generally painful to us.

Something incomprehensible is not for that reason less real.