Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

People are generally better persuaded by the reasons which they have themselves discovered than by those which have come in to the mind of others.

I condemn equally those who choose to praise man, those who choose to condemn him and those who choose to divert themselves, and I can only approve of those who seek with groans.

Each one is all in all to himself; for being dead, all is dead to him.

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.

Law, without force, is impotent.