For nature is an image of Grace, and visible miracles are images of the invisible.

The pagans do not know God, and love only the earth. The Jews know the true God, and love only the earth. The Christians know the true God, and do not love the earth.

Orthodoxy on one side of the Pyrenees may be heresy on the other.

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but worthy of reverence and respect. Next make it attractive, make good men wish it were true and then show that it is.

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.