I know whom I have believed.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

When we see an effect happen always in the same manner, we infer that it takes place by a natural necessity; as, for instance, that the sun will rise to morrow; but nature often deceives us, and will not submit to its own rules.

Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.

There are vices which have no hold upon us, but in connection with others; and which, when you cut down the trunk, fall like the branches.

If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.