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

Vanity is so secure in the heart of man that everyone wants to be admired: even I who write this, and you who read this

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

The heart has reasons which reason knows nothing of.

There are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him, and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.