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

We are usually convinced more easily by reasons we have found ourselves than by those which have occurred to others.

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

It is certain that those who have the living faith in their hearts see at once that all existence is none other than the work of the God whom they adore. But for those in whom this light is extinguished, [if we were to show them our proofs of the existence of God] nothing is more calculated to arouse their contempt. . . .

It is man's natural sickness to believe that he possesses the Truth.

To doubt is a misfortune, but to seek when in doubt is an indispensable duty. So he who doubts and seeks not is at once unfortunate and unfair.