Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

We make an idol of truth itself; for truth apart from charity is not God, but His image and idol, which we must neither love nor worship.

All the unhappiness of men arises from one single fact, that they cannot stay quietly in their own chamber.

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.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing. We feel it in a thousand things. I say that the heart naturally loves the Universal Being, and naturally loves itself; and it gives itself to one or the other, and hardens itself against one or the other, as it chooses...it is the heart that feels God, not the reason; this is faith.

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.

Habit is a second nature, which destroys the first.