All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

Attentiveness is the natural prayer of the Soul.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to create.

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

I do not believe there is anything useful which men can know with exactitude that they cannot know by arithmetic and algebra.