Seeing too much to deny and too little to be sure, I am in a state to be pitied.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.

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.

Continuity in everything is unpleasant.

Without the knowledge of our wretchedness, the knowledge of God creates pride. With it, the knowledge of God creates despair. The knowledge of Christ offers a third way, because in him we find both God and our wretchedness.

This is what I see, and what troubles me. I look on all sides, and everywhere I see nothing but obscurity. Nature offers me nothing that is not a matter of doubt and disquiet.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it