Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

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.

Man is neither angel nor beast.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal