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

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart.

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer.

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.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

Let us, then, take our compass; we are something, and we are not everything. The nature of our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the nothing; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the infinite. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature.