When a man who accepts the Christian doctrine lives unworthily of it, it is much clearer to say he is a bad Christian than to say he is not a Christian.

No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.

All I know is that I must soon die, but what I know least is this very death which I cannot escape.

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?

If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Who confers reputation? who gives respect and veneration to persons, to books, to great men? Who but Opinion? How utterly insufficient are all the riches of the world without her approbation!

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need.