I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and have questioned some cleric about the truths of the faith. After that, they boast that they have searched in books and among men in vain.

There is no arena in which vanity displays itself under such a variety of forms as in conversation.

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires.

You gave me health that I might serve you; and so often I failed to use my good health in your service. Now you send me sickness in order to correct me Grant that, having ignored the things of spirit when my body was vigorous, I may now enjoy spiritual sweetness while my body groans with pain.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

All mankind's troubles are caused by one single thing, which is their inability to sit quietly.