“Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.”

“In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.”

“Faith is a knowledge within the heart, beyond the reach of proof.”

“Art is a barren route, of which glory is the oasis.”

“People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument...He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.”

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”