Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

When we would think of God, how many things we find which turn us away from Him, and tempt us to think otherwise. All this is evil, yet it is innate.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

We know the truth not only through our reason but also through our heart. It is through the latter that we know first principles, and reason, which has nothing to do with it, tries in vain to refute them.

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does.

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.