God only pours out his light into the mind after having subdued the rebellion of the will by an altogether heavenly gentleness which charms and wins it.

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils are infinite, and, lastly, that death, which threatens us every moment, must infallibly place us within a few years under the dreadful necessity of being forever either annihilated or unhappy.

Symmetry is what we see at a glance; based on the fact that there is no reason for any difference.

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek nor know Him.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.