Justice and power must be brought together, so that whatever is just may be powerful, and whatever is powerful may be just..

Just as all things speak about God to those that know Him, and reveal Him to those that love Him, they also hide Him from all those that neither seek….

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common..

If god does not exist, one loses nothing by believing in him anyway, while if he does exist, one stands to lose everything by not believing..

When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before..

We implore the mercy of God, not that He may leave us at peace in our vices, but that He may deliver us from them..

By space the universe encompasses and swallows me up like an atom; by thought I comprehend the world..

The stream is always purer at its source..

He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace..

I cannot judge my work while I am doing it. I have to do as painters do, stand back and view it from a distance, but not too great a distance. How gr….

By thought I embrace the universe..

Le silence est la plus grande perse cution: jamais les saints ne se sont tus. Silence is the greatest of all persecutions: no saint was ever silent..

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted..

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death..

There is a God-shaped vacuum in every heart..

Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth..

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much..

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it..

Is it courage in a dying man to go, in weakness and in agony, to affront an almighty and eternal God?.

Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him..

Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God..