Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.
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 nor know Him.
When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing w...
Our nature consists in motion complete rest is death.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.
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 those things. And then we shall be very cautious.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
The manner in which , , and Salomon de Tultie wrote, is the most usual, the most suggestive, the most remembered, and the oftener quoted; because it is entirely composed of thoughts born from the comm...
Fire. God of Abraham, God of Isaac, God of Jacob, not of the philosophers and the scholars. I will not forget thy word. Amen.
The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.
Man's greatness lies in his power of thought.
To make a man a saint, it must indeed be by grace; and whoever doubts this does not know what a saint is, or a man.
Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them no art can keep or acquire them.
It is the fight alone that pleases us, not the victory.
Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise.
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?
Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them.