Kind words do not cost much. They never blister the tongue or lips. They make other people good-natured. They also produce their own image on men's s….

What use is it to us to hear it said of a man that he has thrown off the yoke that he does not believe there is a God to watch over his actions, that….

Man lives between the infinitely large and the infinitely small..

Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go. [Fr., Les rivieres sont des chemins qui marchant et qui portent ou l'on veut aller.].

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true. The cure for this is first to show that religion is not contrary to reason, but wor….

Look for the truth, it wants to be found..

The state of man is inconstancy, ennui, anxiety..

Cold words freeze people, and hot words scorch them, and bitter words make them bitter, and wrathful words make them wrathful. Kind words also produc….

So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Hi….

We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are..

And is it not obvious that, just as it is a crime to disturb the peace when truth reigns, it is also a crime to remain at peace when the truth is bei….

What can be seen on earth points to neither the total absence nor the obvious presence of divinity, but to the presence of a hidden God. Everything b….

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing..

Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for the….

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, ….

When I have occasionally set myself to consider the different distractions of men, the pains and perils to which they expose themselves I have discov….

[Unbelievers] think they have made great efforts to get at the truth when they have spent a few hours in reading some book out of Holy Scripture, and….

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with al….

In each action we must look beyond the action at our past, present, and future state, and at others whom it affects, and see the relations of all tho….

It is dangerous to explain too clearly to man how like he is to the animals without pointing out his greatness. It is also dangerous to make too much….

God has given us evidence sufficiently clear to convince those with an open heart and mind..