Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

The Christian's God does not merely consist of a God who is the Author of mathematical truths and the order of the elements. The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob, the God of the Christians, is a God of love and consolation.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.