Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

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.

It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.

Il n'est pas certain que tout soit incertain. (Translation: It is not certain that everything is uncertain.)

Since [man] is infinitely removed from comprehending the extremes, the end of things and their beginning are hopelessly hidden from him in an impenetrable secret; he is equally incapable of seeing the nothing from which he was made, and the infinite in which he is swallowed up.

Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it.

Jesus is the God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.