If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?

Excuse me, pray." Without that excuse I would not have known there was anything amiss.

If it is an extraordinary blindness to live without investigating what we are, it is a terrible one to live an evil life, while believing in God

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.

A little thing comforts us because a little thing afflicts us.

The exterior must be joined to the interior to obtain anything from God, that is to say, we must kneel, pray with the lips, and soon, in order that proud man, who would not submit himself to God, may be now subject to the creature.