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.

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

Reflect on death as in Jesus Christ, not as without Jesus Christ. Without Jesus Christ it is dreadful, it is alarming, it is the terror of nature. In Jesus Christ it is fair and lovely, it is good and holy, it is the joy of saints.

Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about 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.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles.