The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.

He who does not know his way to the sea should take a river for his guide.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

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.

Unable to make what is just strong, we have made what is strong just.

The only shame is to have none.