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.

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing.

Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.

Thought makes the whole dignity of man; therefore endeavor to think well, that is the only morality.

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.

The past and present are only our means; the future is always our end. Thus we never really live, but only hope to live.

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