Everything that is incomprehensible does not, however, cease to exist.

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

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies.

It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Do they think that they have given us great pleasure by telling us that they hold our soul to be no more than wind or smoke, and saying it moreover in tones of pride and satisfaction? Is this then something to be said gaily? Is it not on the contrary something to be said sadly, as being the saddest thing in the world?

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.