Now, if the passions had no hold on us, a week and a hundred years would amount to the same.

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

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.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

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.

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