Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.
Look for the truth, it wants to be found.
Distraction is the only thing that consoles us for our miseries. Yet it is itself the greatest of our miseries.
There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.
Most of man's trouble comes from his inability to be still.
Jesus Christ came to tell men that they have no enemies but themselves.
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.
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.
It's not those who write the laws that have the greatest impact on society. It's those who write the songs.
Mankind suffers from two excesses: to exclude reason, and to live by nothing but reason.
Muhammad established a religion by putting his enemies to death; Jesus Christ by commanding his followers to lay down their lives.
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
What a vast difference there is between knowing God and loving Him.
Human beings do not know their place and purpose. They have fallen from their true place, and lost their true purpose. They search everywhere for their place and purpose, with great anxiety. But they cannot find them because they are surrounded by darkness.
Happiness can be found neither in ourselves nor in external things, but in God and in ourselves as united to him.
I bring you the gift of these four words: I believe in you.
Not only do we know God by Jesus Christ alone, but we know ourselves only by Jesus Christ. We know life and death only through Jesus Christ. Apart from Jesus Christ, we do not know what is our life, nor our death, nor God, nor ourselves.
All the troubles of life come upon us because we refuse to sit quietly for a while each day in our rooms.
Do you wish people to think well of you? Don't speak well of yourself.
We should seek the truth without hesitation; and, if we refuse it, we show that we value the esteem of men more than the search for truth.
If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
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