Those who make antitheses by forcing the sense are like men who make false windows for the sake of symmetry. Their rule is not to speak justly, but t….

You corrupt religion either in favour of your friends, or against your enemies..

We need not have the loftiest mind to understand that here is no lasting and real satisfaction, that our pleasures are only vanity, that our evils ar….

All our life passes in this way: we seek rest by struggling against certain obstacles, and once they are overcome, rest proves intolerable because of….

At the centre of every human being is a God-shaped vacuum which can only be filled by Jesus Christ..

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true..

It is right that what is just should be obeyed. It is necessary that what is strongest should be obeyed..

It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist..

What amazes me most is to see that everyone is not amazed at his own weakness..

Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own s….

The law required what it could not give. Grace gives that which it requires..

Continued eloquence is wearisome..

It is good to be tired and wearied by the futile search after the true good, that we may stretch out our arms to the Redeemer..

I feel engulfed in the infinite immensity of spaces whereof I know nothing, and which know nothing of me, I am terrified The eternal silence of these….

Losses are comparative; imagination only makes them of any moment..

We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike..

La chose la plus importante a' toute la vie est le choix du me tier: le hasard en dispose. The most important thing in life is to choose a profess….

Parents fear the destruction of natural affection in their children. What is this natural principle so liable to decay? Habit is a second nature, whi….

If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through….

The married should not forget that to speak of love begets love..

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright..