Imagine various pieces of a cathedral arriving from different countries and cities, converging on a central location. In fact, imagine that investigation proves that forty different sculptors made contributions over a period of many centuries. Yet the pieces fit together to form a single magnificent structure. Would this not be proof that behind the project was a single mind, one designer who used his workmen to sculpt a well-conceived plan? The Bible is that cathedral..."

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

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

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

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

Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.

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

Little things console us because little things afflict us.

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

That we must love one God only is a thing so evident that it does not require miracles to prove it.

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

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him.

The only shame is to have none.

The present letter is a very long one, simply because I had no leisure to make it shorter.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

There is a God shaped vacuum in the heart of every man which cannot be filled by any created thing, but only by God, the Creator, made known through Jesus.

We never love a person, but only qualities.