Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

The only shame is to have none.

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Let us weigh the gain and the loss, in wagering that God is. Consider these alternatives: if you win, you win all, if you lose you lose nothing. Do not hesitate, then, to wager that he is.

Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.

There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.