A great memory does not make a mind, any more than a dictionary is a piece of literature.

Regarding Christianity: Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt.

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

Faith ... acts promptly and boldly on the occasion, on slender evidence.

I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us. He does nothing in vain.

Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.

Reason is one thing and faith is another and reason can as little be made a substitute for faith, as faith can be made a substitute for reason.