It is the conduct of God, who disposes all things kindly, to put religion into the mind by reason, and into the heart by grace.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past or the future.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them.

Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.