The God of Christians is a God of love and comfort, a God who fills the soul and heart of those whom he possesses, a God who makes them conscious of ….

All men have happiness as their object: there is no exception. However different the means they employ, they all aim at the same end..

One must have deeper motives and judge everything accordingly, but go on talking like an ordinary person..

Between us, and Hell or Heaven, there is only life between the two, which is the most fragile thing in the world. Variant: Between us and heaven or ….

All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for thos….

What part of us feels pleasure? Is it our hand, our arm, our flesh, or our blood? It must obviously be something immaterial..

Who knows if this other half of life where we think we're awake is not another sleep a little different from the first..

We must know where to doubt, where to feel certain, where to submit. He who does not do so, understands not the force of reason..

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 h….

The incredulous are the more credulous. They believe the miracles of Vespasian that they may not believe those of Moses. [Fr., Incredules les plus cr….

If a man is not made for God, why is he happy only in God?.

Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking of it at….

Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason..

All is one, all is different. How many natures exist in man? How many vocations? And by what chance does each man ordinarily choose what he has heard….

In order to enter into a real knowledge of your condition, consider it in this image: A man was cast by a tempest upon an unknown island, the inhabit….

[Christianity] endeavors equally to establish these two things: that God has set up in the Church visible signs to make himself known to those who sh….

I would inquire of reasonable persons whether this principle: Matter is naturally wholly incapable of thought, and this other: I think, therefore I a….

Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need..

The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as t….

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

The mind has its arrangement; it proceeds from principles to demonstrations. The heart has a different mode of proceeding..