The Christian religion teaches me two points-that there is a God whom men can know, and that their nature is so corrupt that they are unworthy of Him.
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a limit to reason. Reason's last step is the recognition that there are an infinite number of things which are beyond it. It is merely feeble if it does not go as far as to realise that.
If God exists, not seeking God must be the gravest error imaginable. If one decides to sincerely seek for God and doesn't find God, the lost effort is negligible in comparison to what is at risk in not seeking God in the first place.
We know that there is an infinite, and we know not its nature. As we know it to be false that numbers are finite, it is therefore true that there is a numerical infinity. But we know not of what kind; it is untrue that it is even, untrue that it is odd; for the addition of a unit does not change its nature; yet it is a number, and every number is odd or even (this certainly holds of every finite number). Thus we may quite well know that there is a God without knowing what He is.
If we let ourselves believe that man began with divine grace, that he forfeited this by sin, and that he can be redeemed only by divine grace through the crucified Christ, then we shall find peace of mind never granted to philosophers. He who cannot believe is cursed, for he reveals by his unbelief that God has not chosen to give him grace.
Noble deeds that are concealed are most esteemed.
Reason is the slow and torturous method by which those who do not know the truth discover it
We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.
The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family.
No man ever believes with a true and saving faith unless God inclines his heart; and no man when God does incline his heart can refrain from believing.
Having been unable to strengthen justice, we have justified strength.
All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.
Man governs himself more by impulse than reason
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
Nothing is so intolerable to man as being fully at rest, without a passion, without business, without entertainment, without care.
Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity.
The best defense against logic is ignorance.
If man made himself the first object of study, he would see how incapable he is of going further. How can a part know the whole?
No one is discontented at not being a king except a discrowned king ... unhappiness almost invariably indicates the existence of a road not taken, a talent undeveloped, a self not recognized.
Everyone, without exception, is searching for happiness.
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of... We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart." - Blaise Pascal
There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.
Plurality which is not reduced to unity is confusion; unity which does not depend on plurality is tyranny.
All our dignity lies in our thoughts.
Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.
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