No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God incline his heart, and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing. - Blaise Pascal

There is nothing we can now call our own, for what we call so is the effect of art; crimes are made by decrees of the senate, or by the votes of the people; and as here-to-fore we are burdened by vices, so now we are oppressed by laws.

Faith certainly tells us what the senses do not, but not the contrary of what they see; it is above, not against them.

Unless we know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, concupiscence, weakness, wretchedness and unrighteousness, we are truly blind. And if someone knows all this and does not desire to be saved, what can be said of him?