How shall one who is so weak in his childhood become really strong when he grows older? We only change our fancies.

Words differently arranged have a different meaning, and meanings differently arranged have different effects.

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

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

Not only do we know God through Jesus Christ, we only know ourselves through Jesus Christ.

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.

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.