Fear not, provided you fear; but if you fear not, then fear.

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.

Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.

All our troubles come from not being able to be alone.

Desire and force between them are responsible for all our actions; desire causes our voluntary acts, force our involuntary.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

All the dignity of man consists in thought. Thought is therefore by its nature a wonderful and incomparable thing. It must have strange defects to be contemptible. But it has such, so that nothing is more ridiculous. How great it is in its nature! How vile it is in its defects! But what is this thought? How foolish it is!