Bless yourself with holy water, have Masses said, and so on; by a simple and natural process this will make you believe, and will dull you - will quiet your proudly critical intellect.
Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common.
Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.
The world is ruled by force, not by opinion; but opinion uses force.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.