Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

Man is so made that if he is told often enough that he is a fool he believes it.

The statements of atheists ought to be perfectly clear of doubt. Now it is not perfectly clear that the soul is material.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Generally we are occupied either with the miseries which now we feel, or with those which threaten; and even when we see ourselves sufficiently secure from the approach of either, still fretfulness, though unwarranted by either present or expected affliction, fails not to spring up from the deep recesses of the heart, where its roots naturally grow, and to fill the soul with its poison.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.