Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.

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.

Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too.

When one does not love too much, one does not love enough.

All this visible world is but an imperceptible point in the ample bosom of nature.

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.