The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

Meanings receive their dignity from words instead of giving it to them.

The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of their inward wretchedness, and his infinite mercy; who unites himself to their inmost soul, who fills it with humility and joy, with confidence and love, who renders them incapable of any other end than himself.

The sweetness of glory is so great that, join it to what we will, even to death, we love it.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

I can well conceive a man without hands, feet, head. But I cannot conceive man without thought; he would be a stone or a brute.