Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Don't try to add more years to your life. Better add more life to your years.
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.
If I believe in God and life after death and you do not, and if there is no God, we both lose when we die. However, if there is a God, you still lose and I gain everything.
All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.
Either Christianity is true or it's false. If you bet that it's true, and you believe in God and submit to Him, then if it IS true, you've gained God, heaven, and everything else. If it's false, you've lost nothing, but you've had a good life marked by peace and the illusion that ultimately, everything makes sense. If you bet that Christianity is not true, and it's false, you've lost nothing. But if you bet that it's false, and it turns out to be true, you've lost everything and you get to spend eternity in hell.
People almost invariably arrive at their beliefs not on the basis of proof but on the basis of what they find attractive.
The more I see of Mankind, the more I prefer my dog.
In difficult times carry something beautiful in your heart.
Man is clearly made to think. It is his whole dignity and his whole merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought. And the order of thought is to begin with ourselves, and with our Author and our end.
There are only three types of people; those who have found God and serve him; those who have not found God and seek him, and those who live not seeking, or finding him. The first are rational and happy; the second unhappy and rational, and the third foolish and unhappy.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
Happiness is neither within us, nor without us. It is in the union of ourselves with God.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
If we do not know ourselves to be full of pride, ambition, lust, weakness, misery, and injustice, we are indeed blind. And if, knowing this, we do not desire deliverance, what can we say of a man...?
When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.
Once your soul has been enlarged by a truth, it can never return to its original size.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
We are not satisfied with real life; we want to live some imaginary life in the eyes of other people and to seem different from what we actually are.
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
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