The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.

That queen, of error, whom we call fancy and opinion, is the more deceitful because she does not always deceive. She would be the infallible rule of truth if she were the infallible rule of falsehood; but being only most frequently in error, she gives no evidence of her real quality, for she marks with the same character both that which is true and that which is false.

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

We must kill them in war, just because they live beyond the river. If they lived on this side, we would be called murderers.

The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.

Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it