If it had pleased them [the legislators] to order that this wealth, after having been possessed by fathers during their life, should return to the re… - Blaise Pascal

Jesus is a God whom we can approach without pride and before whom we can humble ourselves without despair.

A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.

Whilst in speaking of human things, we say that it is necessary to know them before we can love them...the saints on the contrary say in speaking of divine things that it is necessary to love them in order to know them, and that we only enter truth through charity.