Cure yourself of the affliction of caring how you appear to others. Concern yourself only with how you appear before God, concern yourself only with the idea that God may have of you.

Faith which does not doubt is dead faith.

Use harms and even destroys beauty. The noblest function of an object is to be contemplated.

What is certain is that for thinking believers to-day, faith is, before all and above all, wishing that God may exist.

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

It is truer to say that martyrs create faith more than faith creates martyrs.

The moment love is equated with happiness, it is satisfied — and is no longer love. The satisfied, the happy ones, do not love; they fall asleep in habit, near neighbor to annihilation.